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...some Republicans that a full-blown Southern strategy could succeed. Nixon received less than one-fifth of his 1968 electoral votes from the South: "Just let the voters feel that their President is trying to outbid George Wallace in the South and watch those slim, non-Southern pluralities melt all over the nation . . . The last Republican presidential aspirant who waged a Southern strategy reveals how successful that approach is. Barry...
...Some roads ripped up to slow Nigerian armored cars have not been repaired. Ex-soldiers, known as "vacuum cleaners" because they are so thorough, roam the region stealing from villagers. In Enugu, a businessman explained why he could never reach Lagos by telephone: "Thieves steal the copper telephone lines, melt them down and sell the ingots in Lagos, where they are made into telephone lines...
...dozen or more varieties of plastics that can be burned, provided the local air-pollution code allows the hospital to use an incinerator. But the PVC (polyvinyl chloride) plastics may generate lethal fumes containing hydrochloric acid and phosgene, a poisonous gas once used in chemical warfare. Other plastics melt and clog the incinerators...
...reminded that Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who has recently aggravated our social confusion over the racial issue while allegedly attempting to clarify it, is co-author of a work which insists that the American melting pot didn't melt because our white ethnic groups have resisted all assimilative forces that appear to threaten their identities. The problem here is that few Americans know who and what they really are. That is why few of these groups-or at least few of the children of these groups-have been able to resist the movies, television, baseball, jazz, football, drum-majoretting, rock...
...visitor stays long enough to do some shopping, he will see evidence of inefficiency in the shoddiness of many types of goods. Blue jeans seem to be the only children's clothes that last any more. Corduroy clothes, which used to be bought for durability, just melt away. Sales clerks often seem to be uninformed or indifferent, though they are not yet as bad as waiters...