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Harvard's football camp was incredibly lax and low-key. It was nothing like the brutal, competitive camps I had been through at Drake and in high school. I couldn't believe that I was preparing to play college football. Drake's workouts were long and hard. Everyone was out to knock the hell out of each other, and to win someone else's position. I knew things would be easier at Harvard but not as easy as I found. Yovicsin seemed to be running a "gentleman's" workout as opposed to the do-or-die competition I had come...
EVEN expert pollsters shudder when they contemplate primary elections. The voting base is small, the electorate volatile, the reins of party discipline lax-and in 1972 the Democratic candidates many. Pollster Louis Harris, who is not gauging primaries this year, points out that polling must continue virtually up to election eve to spot possible switches in voter sentiment that can run as high as 20% in the week before voting day. Given all the hazards, the polling in New Hampshire measured up reasonably well against the actual results...
...needs and problems without help from business and the public. A prime example is pollution control. Businessmen are urging the Government to set clear, firm national standards. Only in that way can entrepreneurs compete on equal terms; no one will be able to use plain self-interest or lax local laws to cut his antipollution costs. But if the Government were to attempt to spend all the billions necessary to clean up the nation's air and waters, it would break the already deficit-ridden federal budget. The cost of cleanup is so enormous that...
Broken Marriage. Bullock's medical monopoly did not bring him large financial rewards. "My income was static for almost 20 years," he says. The charge for a typical office visit was $4, including medication that he prepared himself. Some of his patients say that he was lax about collecting bills...
...mawkish, but the point is simply that institutional negligence (under which I would classify the callous transgressions of promoters like Lang or Melvin Belli) does not make good copy or flashy movies. When thirty-eight miners suffocate in a mineshaft which doesn't even meet the government's lax specifications, that "tragedy" is accorded the treatment the press gives to earthquakes and other natural disasters, but New York filmmakers aren't about to fly down to Kentucky or wherever and compose a film around it. Instead it's the front page one day, then the last bodies...