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Although Humphrey was back in business, the scars of his loss to Nixon still show in doubts about his vote-getting power. Yet his aides assert that they are getting calls from former Muskie supporters. Humphrey hopes to stop Wallace either by beating him outright in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania or West Virginia (where only Humphrey and Wallace are on the ballot) or by running so close to him everywhere that some other candidates will throw their support to Humphrey as the only way of knocking Wallace out. The money is sure to come a little more easily now. Humphrey called Beverly...
...does unwind with a drink, he tends to be giddy in true college-boy fashion. In response to the Anderson report, the State Department, acting on White House instructions, declared that Watson continued to enjoy the President's confidence. But the State Department did not make an outright denial of the incident...
...Denver hospital to say that she "categorically denies" that any deal involving convention funds was made between ITT and the Government. She considered the hearing "an absurd circus" and wanted to testify as soon as she was medically able "in order to put at rest false rumors, innuendos and outright lies...
Utopian. In a sense, if the feminist revolution simply wanted to exchange one ruling class for another, if it aimed at outright female domination (a situation that has occurred in science fiction and other fantasies), the goal would be easier to visualize. The demand for equality, not domination, is immensely complicated. True equality between autonomous partners is hard to achieve even if both partners are of the same sex. The careful balancing of roles and obligations and privileges, without the traditional patterns to fall back on, sometimes seems like an almost Utopian vision...
Another difference is the increase in the out-of-wedlock birth rate among girls from 15 to 19: from 8.3% per 1,000 unmarried teen-agers in 1940 to 19.8% in 1971. Surprisingly, Indiana University Sociologist Phillips Outright believes that increased sexual activity at this age level is a "relatively minor factor"; a more important cause is improved health. There is also a striking rise in the number of unmarried mothers who keep their babies. No nationwide records are kept, but one Boston social agency reports an increase among whites from 10% a decade...