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...dreams of James M. McGovern Jr. '64 point upward--perhaps to Congress, perhaps to statewide office. But the ladder of ascending political ambition is a steep one, and McGovern has resolved to climb every rung, not hop, skip, and jump with the danger of dropping painfully to the bottom. His race three weeks ago for the Cambridge City Council was a losing one because he wasn't elected. But the 22-year-old candidate did not expect to win, and the events of the campaign did nothing to discourage his dreams...
Stephen Shaddeg watched the 1964 presidential campaign from a perch on the second rung of the Goldwater hierarcy. (He was a regional director for 11 far western states.) As the man who managed Goldwater's two successful Senatorial races, Shaddeg clearly did not like what...
...command techniques, undoubtedly including spy satellites and pushbuttons. It sounds like Armageddon Physicist Herman Kahn in his current Clausewitzian study, On Escalation: Metaphors and Scenarios, argues that high-intensity war has a rationale. He identifies 44 stages of escalation, ranging from "Ostensible Crisis," in which no bridges are burned (Rung 1), through "Constrained Force-Reduction Salvo against weak links at the outbreak of a war" (Rung 35) to "Spasm or Insensate War" with "all buttons pressed." His point: controlled response is as possible with thermonuclear artillery as it was with the howitzers of vore...
...Rung Down. Nobody had ever accused Franks, 50, of being that be fore. A roly-poly ex-catcher, he could look back over half a dozen big-league seasons and a lifetime batting average of a minuscule .199. When he coached the Giants in 1959 and 1960, sportswriters gleefully dubbed him "Dumbkopf Franks," and Herman was so mortified that he decided to quit. But last year San Francisco Manager Alvin Dark got himself fired - for telling a newsman that Negroes and Latins are no match for white ballplayers "when it comes to mental alertness." Back came Franks as the Giants...
...Hours of Love is the latest evidence of the low esteem in which Italian moviemakers hold matrimony. Unlike Divorce-Italian Style, Marriage -Italian Style, and the other changes that have recently been rung in Italy on the dissolubility of marriage, Hours is not trying to be funny so much as ruefully amusing. And it succeeds fairly well, thanks mostly to French Actress Emmanuelle Riva (Hiroshima, Mon Amour) and Ugo Tognazzi, one of Italy's busiest actors...