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...presidential candidate, if two-thirds can agree. Given labor's current woes, the choice will probably be a Democrat. However, if an acceptable Republican emerges, a separate G.O.P. endorsement may be made. One problem with this scheme: the early endorsement could help a front runner who might fade in the stretch. Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy currently leads the parade, followed by former Vice President Walter Mondale. Senator Gary Hart of Colorado, invited to address the New York meeting, was worried that the plan "discriminates a little bit against those of us who are so-called new faces...
...newscasts. That is not the way things went at the N.A.S. last month, however. When the Committee on Substance Abuse and Habitual Behavior turned in its study of marijuana laws, the N.A.S. president flatly disavowed its recommendations, and the academy brushed it aside in the apparent hope it would fade away for lack of attention. No press conference, no press release, no public announcement at all. The reason: the committee urged that the possession or private use of small amounts of marijuana should no longer be a crime...
...economy throughout the Reagan presidency and indeed during much of the Carter presidency that preceded it. The renewed upward pressure now threatens harm to businesses large and small alike, and indeed to everyday people by the millions. They can do little but stand by and watch as already fading hopes for a robust recovery this year fade even further...
...Stones released their first album in 1964. It countered the early Beatles' cheerful harmonies with a rough-edged interpretation of what Jagger. Richards and Jones imagined America sounded like. Dominated by covers of American hits. The Rolling Stones, prepared critics and fans for the Stones first big single, "Not Fade Away," an aging Buddy Holly rattler which Richards souped up Chicago style...
Watergate has performed its elaborate series of cultural cancellations, like the wakes of four or five different ships mingling and neutralizing one another. The suspicion lingers in many minds that the whole affair will eventually fade, enduring only as a kind of 1970s cultural period piece, with no more moral significance than, say, a vicuna coat or a deep freezer. Even now, says Washington Political Analyst Richard Scammon, "Watergate does not have much impact on anyone any more. Fact and fiction are so interwoven that people don't know which is which. They don't remember the Saturday...