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Reagan's homely anecdotes often prove to be factually wrong. TV commonly focuses its cameras on the glibbest or noisiest "man (or woman) in the street" to typify instant public reaction. This mutual use offer-example is what made Reagan's outburst so heartfelt: "Is it news that some fellow out in South Succotash some place has just been laid off, that he should be interviewed nationwide?" In turn, checking the accuracy of every anecdote the President uses to make a point may seem a picayune exercise for the press, but it is unavoidable when argument by anecdote...
...retired physician in California, whose yowl of protest began when he saw three old women sifting through garbage cans for scraps. Townsend wrote a letter to a newspaper demanding $150 a month for all old people, and that demand soon mushroomed into clubs, newspapers, protest meetings and the noisiest crusade of 1935. The Social Security Act that emerged from Congress that year provided payments of only $10 to $85 monthly, which were not to start until 1942, but the pensioners' desperate needs advanced that starting date...
...individuals will blow their tops. The mud flats of Soldiers Field will tremble under the pounding and stampings of the huge audience, and the groans and yips will travel downstream on the Charles. The gentleman who yesterday called the Harvard-Yale game stuff forkids will overnight turn into the noisiest and naughiest kids in the territory. After the game the breath of liquor with hang over the Square like a smog; blond hair and strapless backs will glitter through the night; and Cambridge, seat of culture, will be undistinguishable from any city where the American Legion is raising hell...
...protest and pressure strategy might force the legislature into granting more local aid or adopting large-scale tax reform. But even the noisiest critics of the referendum concede the chances for real relief in the six months left before the new fiscal year are slim...
...world's largest windmill began operating last year in Boone, N.C. With blades that stretch 60 meters (200 ft.) from tip to tip and can generate 2,000 kw of electricity, it is also, it seems, the world's noisiest. Besides dominating the scenic Blue Ridge Mountains landscape-or despoiling it, as some of those living near by complain-the monster rattles windows, bounces cups and saucers and creates an irritating swish-swish...