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FROM his bedroom window on the 23rd floor of the Conrad Hilton, Eugene McCarthy viewed the carnage on Michigan Avenue, turning now and again to the TV screen to watch the dissolution of his own hopes at the convention hall. Only once, when California's Jesse Unruh, a holdout supporter of Teddy Kennedy, appeared on the screen, did he show anger. And even that was relatively subdued. "That doublecrossing son of a bitch," he growled...
...season, covered second like a seasoned pro, was named Rookie of the Year. He later handled third base and left field, lashed 899 hits in five seasons to establish himself as one of the most dangerous hitters in the game, hiked his salary to $57,000 after a spring holdout. That is not nearly enough. "I'm going to be the first player who is not a 20-game winner or a home-run hitter to make $100,000 a year," he insists...
...election also brought out Japan's considerable strain of pragmatism. Japanese voters have an abiding admiration for Ho Chi Minh's holdout against U.S. attack, but they can also understand why the U.S. cannot return Okinawa, with its B-52 landing bases, so long as the war continues-and the electorate decided not to make an issue of it. Sympathy with China, on the other hand, has declined rapidly as Japanese newsmen and businessmen have been harassed and imprisoned there; trade with China has declined 20% in the past two years. Even the popularity of the talent candidates...
Leaders of the holdout colleges also cite the time-consuming red tape involved in securing federal grants, the Government's emphasis on science and defense-related studies, and the discouraging impact of public grants on private giving. Yet some of the opposition has more of a rhetorical than a pragmatic ring. Declares President J. Donald Phillips of Michigan's Hillsdale College: "I don't like to see the vibrant muscle of independence and incentive turned into the flabby fat of dependence...
...holdouts are showing some give -and take. Brigham Young lets its professors accept federal research grants. The reason is not simply, as President Wilkinson argues, that "the research we give is worth every cent we get," but also that the grants help him attract competent scholars to strengthen a generally mediocre faculty. Even Baptist opposition is softening. Such Baptist schools as Baylor, Wake Forest and Mercer have risked the ire of some church officials by accepting aid. Says M. Norvel Young, president of Los Angeles' Pepperdine College, a wavering holdout: "We'd like to paddle our own canoe...