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...Associated Press poll of 1,071 voters awarded the debate to Carter by 38.2% to 34.6%. A Burns Roper spot check of 300 people put Carter ahead by 40% to 30%-almost the exact reverse of a Roper poll after the first debate. Interviews by TIME correspondents indicated that the second debate, like the first, switched few votes-at least for now-though it did help to firm up some support for each candidate...
Speer's new book may well stir as much interest as his first. Many historians agreed with the judgment of Britain's H.R. Trevor-Roper that he was the brightest of the top Nazis. The focus of the new work is narrower than that of his memoir of the Nazi years, since it peers introspectively at the author's difficult adjustment to life in prison...
According to Historian Hugh Trevor-Roper, a senior British intelligence officer during World War II, Winston Churchill issued a directive forbidding his intelligence agencies to get involved in assassination plots against Hitler and Mussolini. Churchill is thought to have feared such attempts would be counter-productive and certain to provoke reprisals of the kind the Nazis visited on Lidice...
Veto-Proof. The opinion polls offer the G.O.P. no comfort. A Roper survey delivered last month revealed that only 21% of U.S. voters considered themselves Republicans (v. 48% Democrats and 26% independents). The Gallup poll, meanwhile, shows that the percentage of Americans who consider themselves Republicans has dropped from 28% in 1972 to 23%. Another Gallup survey out this week discloses that voters plan to back Democratic congressional candidates over Republicans by a margin...
Special Magic. Steer wrestlers, whose goal essentially is to pin cattle to the ground in the fastest possible time, engage in hand-to-horn combat with animals four times their size. Calf ropers have developed a special magic with a lasso-to say nothing of training their horses to keep the rope taut while the roper ties together three of the calf s legs...