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Rats & Riots. With the summer less than half gone, nobody can predict where the fire will strike next time. "It can't be graphed," said Attorney General Ramsey Clark. "The conditions have existed over many years." Already in 1967, the flames have blistered some 30 cities-Omaha, Houston, Chicago...
...Reagan into New Hampshire would cut deeply into Nixon's conservative following, but if write-in campaigns for Illinois Senator Charles Percy and New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller were to materialize, Romney's power among moderates might be similarly eroded. Meanwhile, it seems safe to predict that lakeside holidays with old friends, football weekends, foliage tours and church suppers in New Hampshire will be attractive to several out-of-state Republicans...
There is good reason to predict that the signature campaign will get widespread support even in the working class districts. The wording of the statement is so tepid that several canvassers in Ward 3 were reporting that one-half of the people who signed were actually "all for the war." The petition stops short of any direct criticism of the Johnson Administration, settling for "We, your constituents, are worried about our nation's involvement in Vietnam...
Since many of the new devices will not reach retail outlets until next fall, it is too early to predict the reaction of audiences and noise-numbed parents. But judging from the enthusiasm of dealers and observers at last week's industry show, there may well be a boom in earplug sales...
Unpleasant Fact. Like everybody else, columnists were taken by surprise. Nevertheless, New York Post Theater Critic Richard Watts Jr. found the wit to quip that "it is safe to predict that someone will soon be blaming Lyndon Johnson for the whole ugly Middle Eastern crisis." Sure enough, someone soon was. The very next day, St. Louis Post-Dispatch Columnist Marquis Childs declared that the "real significance" of the war is that the "Johnson brand of consensus diplomacy has disastrously failed"-an interpretation that, had they read it, would have certainly startled the Arabs and Israelis-not to mention the Russians...