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Despite the glaring lack of uniform standards across the country, most police recruits fit Dr. Rhead's prescription, as far as it goes. In Eastern and Midwestern cities, the typical recruit is a Roman Catholic of blue-collar background and Irish, Polish or perhaps Italian ancestry. Often, says Chicago Psychologist Arnold Abrams, he has been "exposed to an autocratic environment." Most recruits are eldest sons; most tend to be nervous around authority. In Detroit, says former Police...
...race has barely begun, and 1968 has proved repeatedly?and jarringly?that it is not a good year for predictions. Only 100 of Nixon's votes are "safe," most of them coming from Western and Midwestern states where he is all but unassailable. And though Humphrey's only truly secure territory is the District of Columbia (3 votes), his candidacy is not altogether bankrupt...
...there may be political wisdom in paying heed to such feeling?especially at a time when George Wallace can he found soaring on gusts of middle-class discontent. Nixon adopted the old-style Southern strategy in the convention, extending it to put together a coalition of Southern, Border and Midwestern states; indications are that he may use a similar strategy to try to win the general election. This makes sense particularly if one bets that conservative sentiment will run wide and deep between now and Election Day, and by no means only in the South. This formula might lose Northeastern...
...needs to capture the Democratic presidential nomination in August - Hubert Humphrey might understandably have been content to tend to his Washington chores or else to rusticate back home in Waverly, Minn. Instead, acting for all the world like a ravenous underdog, the Vice President scrambled through a grueling Midwestern campaign tour...
...most dramatic expansion has come in high-profit, nonfood lines. Unlike other food chains, which are often content to put general merchandise on the grocery shelves, Jewel early chose to diversify in depth by acquiring the Midwestern-based Osco chain of drugstores and Boston's Turn-Style discount stores. Under Jewel, Osco has grown from 30 stores to 133, Turn-Style from four stores to nine. A growing number of these outlets now are situated under the same roof as grocery operations, providing shoppers with one-stop service for everything from canned peas to cameras, drug prescriptions to complete...