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...secret poll of Democratic county leaders in Wisconsin, a strong McGovern state that is in many ways an American microcosm, found 38% of those interviewed believed Eagleton to be so serious a drag on the ticket that he should go. Yet McGovern may have somewhat misjudged the voters' response to the Eagleton revelations. In a poll carried out for TIME last week by Crossley Surveys Inc., 76.7% of those interviewed said that Eagleton's medical record would not affect their vote (see box). A significant number said they were ready to switch from supporting McGovern or being neutral...
Benoit's Uncle Antoine runs the general store in Black Lake, a perfect place for a growing boy to get his first intimations of adulthood. The store, as Jutra and Perron present it, is a microcosm, a clearing place for the stuff of life, from wedding veils to coffins...
IDEALLY, primary elections can be viewed as national contests in microcosm, races that measure and illuminate shifting voter sentiment across the country. But primaries, like other political mechanisms, almost never fulfill ideals. Local problems, quirky election laws and this year's long, variable roster of contestants can easily warp the reflection of what people really think. Because our business is to report on these attitudes as well as an election's outcome and impact, we introduce this week a new campaign-season feature -a report on a TIME Citizens Panel to complement our cover story on George McGovern...
...proud of my self-demeaning, two-faced accomplishments, but this behavior is just a microcosm of the group behavior the black man is relegated to in this society. For I am neither Martin Luther King nor H. Rap Brown. I don't think every white man is a devil, nor do I think every black man is an angel. I wasn't raised to think either way, nor has my life led me to believe otherwise. If that makes me "a Tom", so be it. If it makes me a black militant. I guess I'm one. I am convinced...
...RECENT HISTORY of Angola is a microcosm of American corporate penetration. Portugal is a relatively weak client of the Western NATO powers and has been very jealous of her prerogative in her colonies. Until 1961, when the liberation movement in Angola went on the offensive for the first time, the Portuguese refused to allow any foreign investment in the colony. As the Liberation forces grew in strength. Portugal realized that she needed allies, and so began to solicit American capital. Backed up by such corporations as Gulf, and by NATO training and advisers for her army. Portugal is waging...