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...Medical School researcher has devised a quicker and easier test for venereal disease than the test...
Carter's is by far the quicker mind. He is both bolder and capable of more brilliance than Ford. His compassion for the underdog in U.S. society seems sincere. But he also seems shifty. He showed that in Georgia by campaigning as a conservative and governing as a liberal. His religiosity is genuine, yet there is a mean streak in him. The blue eyes can turn cold, and his ready tongue can lacerate a foe. When he cools off, he often apologizes. Whether it is out of Christian charity or practical considerations is unclear. Carter is supremely ambitious, self-confident...
...that Jews unduly influenced Congress, banks and newspapers. Ford claimed, erroneously, that Brown had been "reprimanded"-a severe step in dealing with high military officers. The general was not even given a personal presidential scolding. much less a formal reprimand. Carter said merely that Ford should have issued a quicker clarification that Brown's statements did not reflect U.S. policy...
...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...
This year he urged quicker military action against the Rebels on Lord Sandwich, the First Lord of the Admiralty, adding that "we must show that the English lion when roused has not only his wonted resolution, but has added the swiftness of the race horse." A more compromising or less obstinate man might yet regain the Colonists' loyalty, but George, who is in many ways a model King, lacks a very important royal virtue -flexibility...