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Nixon-who was elected President by a minority of the voters-is doubtless correct in saying that the majority supports him on the war, and it is an important fact. But to lean on that fact quite so heavily may not be the wisest form of leadership. The majority rules, and it should-but it is sometimes wrong and often fickle. What (it is intriguing to speculate) would the President do if his present majority should change its mind and turn against his policies? One thing, though: the President has not yet taken to carrying different opinion polls, Johnson-style...
Mathias argues that the Administration is wrong in trying to form a Republican majority in the country by pursuing a Southern strategy. "Are you going to line up with the radical right-which is what the politics of polarization is all about-or are you going to pursue the politics of reconciliation and seek a pluralistic majority...
...significance of the second moon-landing mission: the newfound precision that enables the U.S. to pick a destination on the moon's rugged surface and reach it as reliably as a taxicab finds a street address in Manhattan. Directly ahead of Intrepid lay the five craters that form the familiar pattern of "Snowman." Guided unerringly by the spacecraft computer. Astronauts Conrad and Alan Bean headed straight toward the target picked months earlier in Houston: Surveyor Crater, which forms Snowman's torso and is the spot where 21 years ago the unmanned Surveyor 3 landed on the moon. Conrad...
...Rangoon, queues of would-be shoppers form in the dingy light of false dawn, long before the rising sun has set the golden stupa of the Shwe Dagon Pagoda aglow. For hours, as crows caw mournfully above the dirty streets, they stand in line at "people's stores," ration cards in hand, waiting for a chance to buy rice, bread, soap or a bit of cloth to make a longyi, the Burmese sarong. But when the doors open, the shelves, as often as not, are bare...
Jefferson, Jackson. At one point Agnew declared: "The day when [newsmen] enjoyed a form of diplomatic immunity from comment and criticism of what they said is over." But as James Reston asked in his New York Times column the next morning, when did that day ever dawn? Among some famous old snipes at the press noted by Reston: Thomas Jefferson writing in 1803 that "even the least informed of the people have learnt that nothing in a newspaper is to be believed"; and Andrew Jackson strafing in 1837 some editors "who appear to fatten on slandering their neighbors and hire...