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...Plight of the Moderates
...developing upset, President Nixon stayed up much of the election night following the returns. Momentarily forgetting the five-hour time difference, he put in a call to Ambassador Walter Annenberg, who was awakened in his London residence at 5:29 a.m. The President was chuckling over the plight of the British pollsters who had called the election wrong. Said Nixon: "Well, Walter, what a surprise!" Annenberg did his groggy best to make sense of the still incomplete election returns, but finally had to terminate the conversation with the apology that he had been up most of the night watching...
...conservatives and far-left liberals whose 30 Bundestag delegates give Brandt's coalition a thin twelve-seat majority in the 496-seat West German parliament. In two of the three states, the Free Democrats failed to gain the 5% of the vote required to be seated. The plight of the Free Democrats threatened to undermine Brandt's slender hold on power. Some Christian Democrats were even threatening to try to bring down the government. Under the circumstances, Ulbricht may have reckoned that some sign of progress on the diplomatic front would strengthen Brandt's position...
...summarily dismiss workers hooked on narcotics. Without income, the addict's chances of paying for effective private treatment are reduced, while the odds against his completing the program at free centers is heightened. One of the few firms to take an enlightened view of the addict's plight is New Jersey Bell Telephone, which began this year to pay disability money to employees undergoing treatment for drug...
Publishers, who periodically convene to contemplate the plight of the first novel with a melancholy akin to that so often displayed in the theater world over the perennial decline of Broadway, have considered various cures. Among them: better bookstores; special sales packages of three or four first novels together: a first-novel book club; mailorder contact with some constituency of youthful readers who are thought to care enough about serious, unheralded fiction...