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...month does not belong in the same category as these and similar scandal-tinged tragedies. Edward Kennedy has denied all charges of indiscretion with the young woman, and there is neither proof nor convincing speculation to the contrary. Yet his inconsistent and clearly incomplete explanations have allowed doubts to persist that involve much more than Kennedy's political future. The fortunes of the Democratic Party in the 1972 presidential election have been affected; so, perhaps, have been some of the liberal causes that Ted Kennedy espoused...
Many of the people of Texarkana are technologically unemployed farmhands who have no conception of sanitation. They persist in tossing their garbage out the back door without remembering that rats, not hogs, are there to eat it. Worse, the city did not collect trash until last week and is still unable to enforce its rudimentary sanitation laws; much of the population cannot afford even minimal fines. As a result, vacant lots have sprouted moldering mountains of rubber tires, empty cans, cardboard boxes and putrefying scraps of food. The rats love...
...years, the Government has been struggling for months to create a climate of uncertainty among businessmen, consumers and investors. The rationale is that considerable uncertainty about the future course of the economy is necessary to erase the nation's deep-seated inflationary psychology. As long as people persist in believing that economic growth is perpetual and price rises are inevitable, they will continue to buy and borrow in order to beat still further increases. Once people begin to doubt that "good times" will last forever, the theory goes, then everyone will become more cautious in his buying decisions, demand...
Phillips, among others, sees the Deep South and the border states as a future stronghold of the G.O.P. "Now that the national Democratic Party is becoming the Negro party throughout most of the South," says Phillips, "the alienation of white Wallace voters is likely to persist." He reasons that the G.O.P. must be conservative enough to undercut George Wallace or any third-party leader like...
...crash program" to increase capacity. Its maintenance spending will rise from last year's $293 million to $343 million, and it is now installing 33,000 phones a month in the New York City area, up from 20,000 in 1967. As for Benton & Bowles, its problems persist. Last week the agency discovered that its listing was inadvertently left out of the new phone books. New York Tel promised to insert the listing in the last half of the press run, and to make sure that the early books are distributed to Manhattan's outlying areas where...