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Bucolic Reactionary. For Ted Agnew, who beat George Mahoney, a Democratic, demagogic segregationist last November, the raft of new laws meant fulfillment of his most important campaign promises during his first three months in office-with Democratic majorities of better than 4 to 1 in both houses. Luckily for Agnew and Maryland, most of the Democrats were not Mahoney men; for the first time, as a result of the state's court-ordered reapportionment, they represented population patterns rather than geography. Thus the political center of gravity had shifted from Maryland's conservative rural minority to its metropolitan...
...five days since his death in Vietnam, the people who worked with him have tried to express just what it was. "He made himself immediately available, to give us counsel," said a woman who helped establish a program to bus Boston Negro students to the suburbs. "This meant any time of day or night; I could always reach...
...Stennis committee; its last sentence said that the "purpose of Dodd Day was to raise funds for Senator Dodd's forthcoming 1964 campaign." Then, on the stand Sinclair repudiated the affidavit as so much "nitpicking semantics," contended that he had no certain knowledge that the funds were meant for the campaign rather than for Dodd's personal...
...gather that by the use of the awkward term "proto-bureaucrat" Mr. Lardner meant to imply that the School views its mission as the training of narrow fonctionnaires. We are baffled as to how he got this impression. The School's curriculum contains no conventional courses in public administration. Its faculty has no interest in starting any. A list of the jobs which its students take upon receiving the M.P.A. degree contains very few which could merit any of the labels Mr. Lardner employs in his article. Is the deputy director of a community action program in a large city...
Point Three, in which I am accused of saying that Woodrow Wilson students "spend their time wheeling and dealing in 'mock political extravaganzas,'" is deceptive. If by "their time" is meant any substantial percentage of their time, then I cannot see such a contention in the article. I did, on the other hand, make clear that much of a student's time is occupied with regular courses...