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Otis's senior counselors, Brad and Lester, have more realistic grips on reality, but are indulgent enough never to pop their employer's fantasy bubble. They watch but they do not touch. The junior counselor, Tyler, in his first year at Edgewater, is downy, gangly and innocent. One would think that his fall would be the main tension of the play and one would be wrong...
What is a leader's most important role? Said M.I.T. Economist Lester Thurow, 38: "Maybe it is the goal-setting that is the basic element, in the sense of going somewhere." In a time of crisis, Thurow continued, "you will have a leader. Maybe a Hitler, a Roosevelt or Huey Long. Somebody will lead when society is collapsing-not necessarily a good leader, but a leader...
American Independent Party: Like the American Party, which split off from the AIP several years ago, this party has compiled a platform that would do any rock-hard reactionary's heart good to see. With Lester Maddox as its presidential candidate, the AIP has a slightly easier time getting media coverage than have the other minority parties. But some of Maddox's initial support has melted away, as the Reagan supporters who left the Republican party in disgust began to feel that AIP was a little too far gone, even for them...
...with 8% still undecided. Before the debate, the figures had been 45% for Carter, 42% for Ford, with 13% undecided. The Harris/ABC poll had precisely the same pre-debate spread between the two major candidates-45% to 42% for Carter, with 5% for Independent Candidate Eugene McCarthy, 1% for Lester Maddox and 7% undecided. An earlier Gallup sounding gave Carter 47%, Ford 41%, with the rest for other candidates or undecided...
...standoff turned up by the survey resulted from asking those polled to choose between the two main candidates. When the Yankelovich analysts figured in the effect of the minor candidates, Lester Maddox and Eugene McCarthy, Ford pulled ahead of Carter by 42% to 40%. Maddox is a negligible factor, polling only 1% of the vote at this point. But McCarthy draws 7%, down from 12% in August but still enough to tip the election to Ford...