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Inevitably, this week's Republican Convention in Miami Beach wears the joyful and slightly smug mien of a coronation. It is proudly programmed to praise the man who is going to give the Republicans four more years at the helm of the nation, and who will perhaps forge the first new alignment of political power in the U.S. since the New Deal. The campaign to follow looms almost as anticlimax, an exercise in the forms of democracy, though it will be the most lavishly financed and highly organized in Republican history. Yet it should also pose the sharpest choice...
...would be willing to see the end of democracy and some new kind of Napoleonic order coming in. Arnold Toynbee, in his recent book Surviving the Future, says that as far as he can see we have a choice between a world federal state with an Alexander at the helm or nothing -annihilation...
Kwangtung Provincial Teachers' Training College was re-opened just one year ago, and the same professors who occupied the classroom podiums before Mao ignited the Cultural Revolution are back at work. At the school's helm, moreover, are many of the same school officials who four years ago came under fierce fire for bureaucratic airs and "capitalist-road" educational policies...
...current Eli quarterback is junior Roly Purrington, who started the season on the third string and took over the helm two games ago from Don Pfiel, out with a concussion...
Rookies at the Helm No one is more likely to change from Saturday's hero into Sunday's nobody than a rookie pro-football quarterback. Experts generally agree that it takes five to six years for a fledgling passer to gain the poise, knowledge and confidence-in himself as well as that of his teammates-to become a winner. Even the best young signal callers usually find themselves enduring a lengthy novitiate behind a seasoned...