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Rockefeller is harboring thoughts of a third-party bolt in the style of Theodore Roosevelt's 1912 Bull Moose revolt. Right-leaning Columnist David Lawrence and left-leaning Columnist Murray Kempton, who rarely agree on anything, both detected a scent of Bull Moose in the air, pointed out that no Republican presidential hopeful has openly attacked a Republican Administration since T.R. blasted William Howard Taft...
...University of Idaho for ''promoting better health with his genuine Idaho baked potatoes." Nor is public-relations prose improving the quality of citations, which used to be honed to a fine salutatory precision by such masters as Yale's William Lyon Phelps, Columbia's Nicholas Murray Butler and Harvard's Abbott Lawrence Lowell. But more degrees than ever are conferred, and no one has more deftly defended the custom than Harvard's Lowell: ''Since the conferring of such degrees seems to increase the sum of human happiness, I'm in favor...
...week's end, negotiations were continuing, but both sides were in a pet and positions had hardened. Producers called the actors "unstable transient workers" and "gypsies." Since many of them profess liberal ideals, their position was uncomfortable. Wrote New York Post Columnist Murray Kempton: "The producers include a number of passionately devoted liberals beneath whose Stevenson buttons beat hearts that click like taxi meters...
...buffoonery in which the bachelor hero uses a tennis racket as a spaghetti strainer. There is a piece of business in which the heroine, when asked how many affairs she has had, admits to three but unconsciously lifts four fingers. And there is a telephone conversation between Lover Mac-Murray and Mistress MacLaine (she has tried to commit suicide, and he couldn't care less about her condition-or more about the possible scandal) that makes a rarely profound and ignoble vignette...
Even in fairly serious cases, some psychiatrists feel that it is better to keep a man or woman on the job during treatment. Says Dr. Raymond J. Murray, medical director of Sperry Gyroscope Co.: "It is surprising how disturbed a person can be and stay on the job." A tougher on-the-firing-line approach is the basis of Du Font's program. Psychiatrist Gordon does not believe in coddling, thinks that a disturbed worker can be taught to face reality by being required to do his work the same as other workers. Dr. Gordon's theory...