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About half of the weekend canvassers were with us that day in upper Manhattan's Washington Heights. At the briefing session that morning in the neighborhood campaign headquarters, we had been given the necessary politico-socio-economic background, in order to know what to expect...

Author: By David Sellinger, | Title: How I Won the War: Canvassing for John Lindsay | 11/10/1969 | See Source »

Lawrence R. DiCara '71, prominent student politico, said, "The SFAC is like prune juice. Nobody wants it and it just gets...

Author: By Michael E. Kinsley, | Title: Student Government- Is There Anything Left? | 10/23/1969 | See Source »

...when the first interview had been set up, he cancelled it in order to take a bartending job that afternoon and leave this university out of hock. Ken Glazier, former chairman of the Student-Faculty Advisory Committee, had never learned the fine points on the Harvard student-politico game...

Author: By Scott W. Jacobs, | Title: Steve Kaplan Ken Glazier | 6/12/1969 | See Source »

...another sector of Nixon's politico-cybernetic system, still more machines type automatically "personalized" letters composed by dialing a selection from some 70 paragraphs by Nixon. Robot typewriters transform coded commands from a tape into letters that answer questions raised by concerned citizens. To a voter worried about the cities, for example, the robots write: "Of the many challenges facing America today, none seem more critical than solving the crisis that faces our cities and urban areas." The letters are mailed to voters who have given the candidate a tape-recorded three-minute piece of their mind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Computerized Army | 10/25/1968 | See Source »

...paradoxical combination of qualities that bring to mind Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Harry Truman and Joe McCarthy." The intervening years have polished Nixon and made him well-to-do, but they have not simplified him. He can still sound like the high-minded statesman and act like the cunning politico. He can talk eloquently of ideals and yet seem always preoccupied with tactics. He can plink out Let Me Call You Sweetheart for reporters on a piano or rib himself on television talk shows, but the grin never seems quite at home on his strong, heavy face. The almost mysterious quality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: NOW THE REPUBLIC | 8/16/1968 | See Source »

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