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Dates: during 1970-1979
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People say by 56% to 33% that the Chappaquiddick incident does not reveal a basic flaw in Kennedy's character. More think that Kennedy would be better in times of crisis than Carter would be. The low degree of concern about the incident reflects the arrival of a post-Chappaquiddick generation of voters: the youngest people polled are the least concerned...
...industry, declared, "We could not have written it [Carter's statement] better than that." And almost as if on cue, Gio Batta Gori, a high official of the Government-financed National Cancer Institute, announced a short-term study showing that some of the new cigarettes were so low in toxins that they could be smoked in "tolerable" numbers without appreciable bad effects on average smokers...
...anatomy of this whole episode is instructive. North Carolina was a state important to Carter's political rise, and it is considered pivotal to his future. He stands low there now in part because of the Government's antismoking drive. So it was natural to target North Carolina early in the President's plans for political rehabilitation. The tactics called for praise of tobacco farming, a promise of continued price supports. That North Carolina's tobacco somehow ends up in those cigarettes that Carter's Government is trying to keep people from using was buried...
...September 19 primary approaches, King supporters hope that Ackermann will deprive Dukakis of enough votes to put their candidate over the top. Barbara Ackermann persists doggedly in her scrupulously honest, low-budget campaign. And Michael Dukakis remains supremely oblivious of them both...
...Ph.D. in philosophy was once a oneway ticket to an ivy turret. No more. With declining college enrollments, fewer faculty openings, low starting salaries and little chance for tenure, college teaching has lost much of its allure. Even worse, a Mellon Foundation study estimated that by 1990 the U.S. will have a surplus of 60,000 Ph.D.'s in the humanities...