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...press's lack of enthusiasm for either Reagan or Carter is matched by a decline in its fascination with John Anderson. He no longer inspires such rhapsodies as James Reston's discovery last February of a new Adlai Stevenson, "burdened by some personal characteristics that are now out of style in American politics: moderation, intelligence, experience...
...short, Easyriders is consistently accessible. Another passage from the magazine's James Reston, Spider: "I'm about to pay my taxes, folks, so I'll strap another one on ya. The Feds just gave a professor $100,000 to figure out how pigeons remember things. Shit, I've always wanted to know that--haven...
...columnists' attitudes toward Carter. Normally, that should matter in an election year. Kraft thinks he and his colleagues have so far failed to give Ronald Reagan the "warts-and-all media scrutiny" they applied successively to Connally, Kennedy, Bush and Anderson. The New York Times's James Reston doesn't fault Reagan if at this point he fends off potentially unfriendly interviewers, like Reston, but thinks Reagan won't be able to duck so easily once the nomination is his and 200 reporters begin following him around...
...supporters to bid "good riddance" to the "lumpen" leaving Cuba. Though the attackers had come in buses belonging to the CUBAN INSTITUTE FOR FRIENDSHIP AMONG PEOPLE, there was little doubt about who was behind the assault. "It was clearly permitted, if not sponsored, by the Cuban government," charged Thomas Reston, U.S. State Department spokesman. Though Havana promised safe transport home to the squatters, most decided to remain encamped there...
...about how to stop the flow of refugees. Though the State Department has hinted that some may be deported, especially if the total number of boat people exceeds the 3,500 that the U.S. initially agreed to take from the Peruvian embassy, such a move is considered unlikely. Said Reston: "We are in mid-stride here dealing with something the size of which we don't know." It was a frank admission that Castro's quick-stepping refugee policy caught the Carter Administration somewhat flatfooted...