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...failure of the nation's leaders to demonstrate that they are in control of the various crises causes some political scientists to draw an analogy with the early 1930s. "We've got a deep sense of inadequate leadership," says Harvard Political Sociologist Seymour Martin Lipset, "so once again it is a ripe time for a charismatic leader." It seems doubtful, however, that America will turn to a demagogue for salvation. Men on horseback have never done well in the U.S., and there is nobody tall in the saddle in sight...
...Lipset and Bell, Cohen and Beer...
Most real-life lawmen, however, find that TV crime shows bear little relation to reality. "Take a recent episode of Streets of San Francisco, " says San Francisco Private Investigator Harold Lipset. "Karl Maiden and his partner drive right up to a suspect's house and park in front. While they are inside, the suspect drives up, sees the car and gets away. Obviously you wouldn't do something like that." Even more often, says TIME Correspondent Joseph Boyce, himself an ex-policeman, TV cops "go to every call with squad lights flashing and sirens screaming." That, he says...
...statement was drafted Monday and Tuesday by Nathan Glazer, professor of Education and Social Structure, Seymour Martin Lipset, professor of Government and Sociology, and professor Edward Shils of the University of Chicago...
Agnew's crimes will divert attention from the Watergate affair, and in Seymour M. Lipset's words, "This, combined with the Mideast war, will go a long way to taking Nixon off the hook." Number two's resignation probably forecloses the possibility of impeachment proceedings against Number...