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From his account of how John Kennedy's skillful man-on-man debating helped floor Richard Nixon in 1960 to his tale of George McGovern's hopelessly quixotic quest for the Oval office in 1972. White turned presidential politics into high drama. The candidates media ploys, public pronouncements, travel schedules, deployment of personnel--White briskly showed how every little tactical choice carried the potential for making or breaking a campaign. And in 1976, when White refrained from writing about the presidential sweepstakes, no one else's electoral post mortem could fill the void. Jules Witcover's painstakingly researched Marathon came...
...patient! D.M. calls on me for advice from time to time -a bit of effrontery I would normally rebuff if it were not that the whole affair is just for a movie called Lovesick due out next year. Dudley Moore, 47, is the analyst and Elizabeth McGovern, 20, is a delightful choice as his patient. Sir Alec Guinness, 68, is playing me. Since childhood, I have always dreamed of Redford or Newman in, the part, but who am I to analyze a producer's motives...
April 25--An open meeting attended by about 650 students ends in a vote to continue the five-day-old student strike, as general counsel to the University Daniel Steiner '54 demands that the Mass Hall occupation end. Meanwhile, South Dakota senator George S. McGovern overwhelmigly triumphs in the Massachusetts primary, winning all the state's 102 delegates...
...gambling that by 1984 arms control will still be a live issue. Unfortunately, this is a gamble whose odds are largely beyond his control. Incumbent presidents hold the foreign policy reins and can easily manufacture "achievements" to defuse explosive discontent. That's what Richard Nixon did to George McGovern in 1972, when he had Henry A. Kissinger '50 declare a month before the election, that peace was "at hand" in Vietnam. Ronald Reagan, by sponsoring the Jackson-Warner "counter-freeze" resolution and pushing his START talks has shown his willingness to use this advantage. In addition, a belligerent move...
After Adelphi's scoring outburst, the Crimson defense made some second-half adjustments. The man down defense of Chris Esmonde, Brian Edmonds. Tom McGovern Paul Garavante and Rob Sherlock suffocated the Adelphi offense but the real key was goalie Tim Pendergast, who recorded 25 saves...