Word: panels
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BOTH Richard Nixon and George McGovern insist that this year's election poses an unusually clear choice. The voters of the TIME Citizens' Panel agree, though so far their choices seem based more on perception of the candidates than of the issues. The 312 panelists were randomly chosen from those participating in an earlier, scientifically selected sampling of 2,320 voters in 16 key electoral states; they were interviewed by telephone from Aug. 25 through Sept. 7 by Daniel Yankelovich Inc. By 2 to 1 they prefer the President over McGovern, expressing their preferences with unusual vigor...
McGovern's image appears responsible for the panel's emphatic reactions to the campaign-and that image is detrimental. Almost half of the Democrats and independents who now plan to vote for Nixon say that it would have been much harder for them to do so had a Democrat other than McGovern been nominated. Moreover, half the panelists who until recently were not sure how they would vote now indicate that they have made up their minds, and three out of four of these have decided to vote for Nixon. Says Judy Johnstin, a teacher in Lansing, Mich...
...ECONOMY. The panel splits almost evenly on the success or failure of Nixon's economic policies. Among McGovern supporters, two-thirds criticize Nixonomics. Surprisingly more than half the panel sees little basic difference between the two political parties on economic matters. The Democrats are attacked for advocating "giveaway programs" and for planning cuts in defense spending that might cost jobs. The Republicans are assailed for their relation to big business. Though he plans to vote for Nixon, Richard Close of Royal Oak, Mich., contends that the President's wage-and-price-control scheme to halt inflation...
...fire or drop their bombs unless they were 1) fired on by anti-aircraft emplacements, 2) engaged by MIG fighters in the air or 3) threatened by surface-to-air (SAM) missiles. Pilots could readily tell when they were in danger from SAMs because an indicator on their control panel would automatically light up when a SAM'S tracking radar locked onto their planes. Any of these three conditions entitled pilots to take "protective reaction" and loose their ordnance against the enemy...
...approach was simple and polite. Says Grueter, a German-born businessman who represented U.S. and European interests in the Orient for 15 years before joining the aircraft firm: "You never sell to the Chinese-they buy from you." Aircraft salesmen usually pass around cuff links, miniature aircraft-panel clocks and other freebies to prospective customers, but Miller observed the Chinese emphasis on strict propriety by taking along as gifts only a stack of cardboard time-distance indicators that show flight times between various cities. These gradually disappeared from the table during the team's twice-daily three-hour sessions...