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Oklahoma: Lean, handsome Republican Bud Wilkinson, 48, has a great record as Sooner football coach going for him. Democrat Fred R. Harris, 33, who upset Incumbent Howard Edmondson in the party primary, has Johnson's coattails (he hopes) and the late Senator Bob Kerr's organization going for him. Wilkinson by a whisker...
...revolt brewing inside Curtis Publishing Co. has been wide spread in the trade for months-partly because of leaks from the combatants themselves, who have been jockeying for outside editorial support. Since neither the image nor the health of this once sturdy old magazine house, now fallen on lean times, could possibly improve by airing the story of a savage, behind-scenes struggle for power, the contestants might have been expected to keep this intelligence where it be longed: behind scenes. But last week Curtis' unhappy secret was out. In a story obviously leaked by participants, the New York...
...fully effective, say psychologists, a slogan should express a single idea in seven words or less. "It is a psychological fact," says Harvard's Gordon Allport, "that seven is the normal limit of rote memory." (Example: telephone numbers.) Whether plugging cat food or a candidate, sloganeers lean heavily on such verbal devices as alliteration ("Korea, Communism, Corruption"), rhyme ("All the way with L.B.J."), or a combination of both ("Tippecanoe and Tyler Too").* Other familiar standbys are paradox ("We have nothing to fear but fear itself"), metaphor ("Just the kiss of the hops"), metonymy ("The full dinner pail"), parody...
...group of Harvard Republicans, Democrats, and independents, angered "by the ruthless power play being attempted by a lean and hungry Robert Kennedy," have formed a Students for Keating Club. The organization will seek University recognition today...
Playing the Game. Wilkinson is handsome, clean-living, hardworking. Long before he decided to run for public office, he was personally known in almost every community in the state with a high school large enough to accommodate the lean, quick youngsters that Bud loved to recruit for his Sooner squad. Wilkinson's pitch to the voters has a simple, conservative consistency that has been characterized as "Basic Bud." "We must," says Bud, "reaffirm our faith in the diffusion of government responsibility and the diffusion of powers." He supports the 27½% oil-depletion allowance, so important to oil-rich...