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Most disturbing, Aeroflot's safety record has been bad enough to prompt the Soviet civil aviation ministry to complain three years ago of inadequate training and negligent checking of equipment. Since then there has been some improvement. Aeroflot pilots used to be notorious for wandering off the flight path at London's Heathrow Airport. Today they seldom do, perhaps because of Moscow's regular post-international-flight review of cockpit tapes recording pilot procedures...
...candidacy as "indulgent." No, he is not tilting at windmills. Neither major candidate has discussed needed structural changes. McCarthy represents the collective voice of those dissatisfied with the failure of the two parties to consider substantive reform. His candidacy cannot hope to win, but it can hope to prompt a discussion of that reform, either within the old parties, or in the form of a stronger independent party...
...greatest hazard for pollsters has been the volatility of the electorate in a year when neither major party candidate commands an unswervingly loyal national constituency. Thus relative trivialities (Carter's remarks to Playboy about lust, Ford's golfing trips from his congressional days) may prompt voters with a soft allegiance to one candidate to shift to an equally transient preference for the other. The debates have contributed heavily to the volatility -Ford gained after the first, Carter after the second-which underscores the importance of this week's third debate...
...Prompt Treatment. Humphrey's chances were vastly improved by the fact that his doctors had been on the lookout for cancer ever since they had found and removed several pinhead-size nonmalignant growths in his bladder in 1968. Five years later, they discovered some new, possibly cancerous tissue, which was promptly treated with the anticancer drug thiotepa and sessions of X-ray therapy that took five minutes a day for five weeks. ("The worst experience in my life," Humphrey recalls.) The therapy worked and the Senator was found cancer-free for three years, but a recent examination...
...Permit quicker, easier rebuttals. Former CBS Anchorman Bill Shadel suggests that the candidates be given more time to reply to each other's statements. Says he: "To give a man two or three minutes without allowing a prompt rebuttal invites campaign speeches rather than confrontation." In addition, Ronald Matlon, a debate expert at the University of Massachusetts, recommends that the candidates be allowed to question each other directly...