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...politics, and it may destroy our whole political system," contends Missouri Judge George W. Lehr. "There's a smell, an odor about it, and unless things change the system cannot survive," insists Larry O'Brien, campaign manager for George McGovern. Says Senator Edward Kennedy: "It is the most flagrant single abuse in our democracy, the unconscionable power of money...
...accompanied pieces. The Pachelbel Chaconne in F Minor was a conservative piece whose execution was marred only by some intolerable upper registrations. The most explicit demonstration of the Frobenius's various sounds was in a set of sixteenth-century dances published by Phalese. These sounded contrived in their flagrant, often unmusical exploitation of every available stop...
...sorriest athletic spectacles in history. True, hundreds of athletes did their human best, breaking dozens of world and Olympic records. Nonetheless, the impact of these extraordinary feats of strength, endurance and grace was marred by the chauvinistic stockpiling of team points, power politics, inept and prejudiced officiating, flagrant commercialism and oleaginous doses of carnival ballyhoo...
...some consumer advocates, that in itself is enough to stir new suspicion of advertising. Democratic Senator Frank Moss of Utah charges "wide spread and flagrant" failure of advertisers to substantiate their claims. His contention is based on a special study made for him by the FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection. A sampler of the results...
...revelations of high-level wheeling and dealing in the state capital. The most sensational was the implication of Governor Smith and former Texas House Speaker Gus Mutscher, among others, in a stock-fraud case (TIME, Feb. 15, 1971). Barnes was not directly involved, but after subsequent investigations exposed flagrant cases of nepotism (one legislator had five relatives on various payrolls) and misuse of state funds (another bought a pickup truck partly with $1,200 in state-purchased postage stamps), the disenchanted voters were in no mood for quibbling. "They threw the rascals out," moaned Barnes, "and me with them...