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Though the letters added that "as things stand now I do not intend to be a candidate," McGovern is known to have the presidential itch. Some of his friends say he firmly believes that the "duty tricks" and other campaign irregularities of the Nixon forces cost him the race, a contention most political analysts find plainly irrational; they maintain that, shoddy tactics aside, Richard Nixon still would have won handily. What are McGovern's chances, should he decide to declare? In a recent private poll, McGovern, according to one party insider, does "very poorly." A Harris poll in June...
...shows him in a pin-stripe suit and shiny black shoes, flashing a tolerant half-smile at his walking companion, who has been cut from the picture. He holds two crisp autographed copies of his latest book under his left elbow, while his left hand absently attends to an itch on his right pinky...
...also a Manhattan cocktail-party play, the sort of drama that shoots adrenaline into people's tongues and makes ticket scalpers' fingers itch in anticipation. T.S. Eliot's The Cocktail Party was just such a play. So was J.B. and A Man for All Seasons and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? These plays have one thing in common. They roar through an evening with blazing dramatic pyrotechnics. On the following dawn, the embers of their dubious intellectual premises will scarcely bear analysis...
...assorted experts and interested parties, but not to make any themselves. A fine distinction: such stories can influence events just as much as outright forecasts by journalists, which, in any case, usually reflect many people's views. Both newsmen and their audiences have a large, very human itch to look ahead and even around corners. It is safe to predict that prediction journalism is here to stay...
...Your article on police corruption in American cities [May 6] reactivates an age-old itch I cannot scratch. I recently retired from the Los Angeles police department after 27 years. From the early '50s. when William H. Parker became chief, I could proclaim with pride at social gatherings that I was a Los Angeles police officer...