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Bestsellers. Thus, what the campaign has really come down to is a back-alley fight featuring such pejorative words and phrases as "liar," "demagogue," "socialist," "irresponsible," "reckless," "soft on Communism," and "fascist." Scurrilous paperback books about both candidates have become bestsellers. Vicious television commercials have depicted Goldwater as a man willing to sprinkle a little girl's ice cream with cancer-causing strontium...
...consumer debts. One household in two has to meet installment payments on appliances, furniture, the car or personal loans. Nearly everyone shares in the $17 billion debt burden spawned by credit cards, charge accounts, single-payment loans and other short-term credit. While their grandfathers would have considered them reckless and irresponsible, these on-the-cuff customers have stimulated the current economic expansion and are turning the U.S. into the world's first credit-based society...
...last-minute testimony from a girl friend of 17-year-old Nancy Hitchings that Nancy did not seem to be drunk when she saw her a couple of hours before she drove off into the night with Michael Smith to her death, Judge Rodney Eielson found Michael guilty of reckless driving and negligent homicide. The judge concluded that Michael, not Nancy, was driving, on such simple physical evidence as the discovery of Nancy's blood on the right side of the car roof. He sentenced him to six months in jail on the homicide charge, to be suspended after...
Dick Nixon, in the midst of a cross-country campaign trip, declared in Chicago: "President Johnson's attack on Senator Goldwater on the NATO nuclear weapons issue is political demagoguery at its worst. It is Johnson's, not Goldwater's, position on this issue which is reckless and irresponsible...
Unrecognized. But the next day, Judge Eielson resumed the trial of Michael Valentine Smith, just turned 19, charged with reckless driving and negligent homicide...