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...hard-eyed reappraisers are all over the Camelot of John F. Kennedy these days, checking the towers with their plumb lines, chipping at the mortar between the stones, skeptically testing the house that Jack built for substance and integrity. And please don't talk to them about "style...
...government really much help in solving problems? Running throughout the findings is a sense of dissatisfaction with "our governmental system as a whole." To plumb that feeling deeper, the pollsters asked people how they rated federal, state and local governments in terms of justice, efficiency and responsiveness. The system flunked in all three categories: 57% rated government "only fair" or "poor" on justice, fairness and honesty; 61% gave low marks on efficiency, and 65% were unhappy with governmental responsiveness. A majority of 54% favored "basic change" in the way "our governmental system is now set up." Precisely what kind...
...told a newly-enfranchised ex-slave who had just cast his first vote for Ulysses S. Grant that the time would come when a Republican President would be faced by the possibility of defeat because of a lack of black support, he would have told you you were plumb crazy. The very notion that any black would ever vote against the party of Lincoln would have seemed to him as ridiculously impossible as the idea that a Republican President would one day be accused of practising the malignant neglect of a Southern Strategy...
...group whose interests are at stake can create effective guidelines. On the basis of past performance, it will be difficult for them to prove their good intentions. At the least, such a committee should consist of members whose institutions have shown initiative in working against discrimination. Bridget Puzon Carol Plumb (for the Graduate Women's Organization...
Professor J.H. Plumb's lecture. "The Public, Literature, and the Arts in the Eighteenth Century," scheduled for 5 p.m. today has been cancelled. The lecture may be rescheduled at a later date...