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Helen is a bingo freak. She plays Tuesdays in Kisco, Thursdays in Lincolndale, and Fridays in Katonah, all within a 15-mile radius of her home. What Baltimore is to lacrosse, Northern Westchester is to bingo...
...Certain Kind. Jesting or not, the only thing new in the notion is the hyperbole. Theodore White, the chronicler of presidential campaigns, has bemoaned what he calls "the Opinionated Mafia," located within "a one-mile radius of [Manhattan's] Fifth Avenue and 51st Street, who control 95% of opinion and influence making in the U.S.A. These people drink together, talk together, read the same esoteric and mad reviews." The Wall Street Journal picked up the theme last October, editorializing that "the Establishment-liberal media have been terribly faddish in their attitude toward Nixon." And of course the most vociferous...
Government and industry have spent $2 billion on Expo, much of it on facilities to transport and house visitors. Even so, the crowds may be more than Expo can handle. Already all hotel rooms within a two-hour radius of Osaka are booked, and families are being asked to take in visitors. The worst problems may come on a new highway built to move 25,000 cars a day but facing an estimated influx of 35,000. Police are warning Expo-bound motorists to pack two meals, drinking water and a portable toilet before they...
...black students not only occupied four buildings but also managed to borrow the campus radio station at Amherst College last week. The varied crew of invaders included women from Smith and Mount Holyoke, men from Amherst, and both sexes from the University of Massachusetts-all within a twelve-mile radius of Amherst. Having taken their objectives, they issued demands for increased black enrollment at the schools-whose nearly 25,000 students now include only 650 blacks. They also called for complete control of a black-studies program that will enroll students from their four colleges, along with some from Hampshire...
...followed the election of President Nixon, Theodore H. White. Reacting at least partially to unfavorable reviews of his book, The Making of a President, 1968, White attacked the "increasing concentration of the cultural pattern of the U.S. in fewer hands. You can take a compass with a one-mile radius and put it down at the corner of Fifth Avenue and 51st Street in Manhattan and you have control of 95% of the entire opinion-and influence-making in the U.S." On William F. Buckley's TV program, Firing Line, White suggested breaking up the networks...