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...outset, Wallace is in a much better position to play the spoiler for both parties than he was four years ago. The arduous task of petitioning for inclusion on the ballot is largely behind him. A full-time campaign staff of 30-augmented by hundreds of volunteers-is already at work cranking out newsletters and magazines, planning fund-raising dinners and plotting strategy. Wallace will concentrate on regional television broadcasts instead of the helter-skelter personal campaigning of '68. To smooth his image, he has sought and received advice on television technique from Evangelist Billy Graham...
...should I conclude that the type of protests which occurred were indeed justified? The answer is no because the university above all must be a place where discussion can be carried on in civilized terms. Yet it should have been made clear in the faculty statement from the outset that the signers included people holding the above view. Since it was not, I wish to do so through this letter. Richard A. Musgrave Professor of Economics
McCloskey refuses to be intimidated by his extremely poor showing in the New Hampshire polls which show him at 6 per cent as opposed to Nixon's 70 per cent. He recalls that at the outset of his 1967 Congressional contest, Shirley Temple Black polled 80 per cent while he showed only ten per cent; he went on then to win the congressional race. Once again undaunted by the odds against him, McCloskey has spent 29 campaign days in New Hampshire dashing from coffee klatches to tea parties--sometimes five or more a day--trying to spread the McCloskey name...
...Nowhere in the course of the book does Skinner draw up a blueprint for the technology of behavior, he only states that it can be drawn up. In an unfortunate and telling comparison he likens the state of his technology to the state of nuclear physics at the outset of World War II. At that time a group of scientists informed the President that they knew, not how to build a bomb, but how to go about finding out how to build a bomb. The parallel is striking. The atom bomb taught us that all science is not necessarily good...
...story is an old one on Wall Street: the stock came out in a weak market, and was bought at the outset largely by speculators who lusted after a quick profit and sold speedily when it did not materialize. Shareholders who have held on are in for a different kind of disappointment. They had been promised stock certificates decorated with the bare-bosomed centerfold photo of Willy Rey, last February's Playmate of the Month, but Playboy officials have sent the prototype certificate back to the engravers for some retouching to make it less revealing. They are worried that...