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...Opinion Analyst Samuel Lubell travels the country and concludes: "To most voters, crime and lawlessness and the Negro are part of the same issue. The vehemence and profanity with which white voters voice their racial views have risen over the last two months." A New York-based writer visits Baltimore and Washington, and finds that "crime-Negro crime-is almost the only topic of conversation." The Aldine Printing Co. in Los Angeles, the world's largest manufacturer of bumper stickers, reports that its bestseller is SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL POLICE, the old Birch slogan...
...significant number of juniors concentrating in Government will not have junior tutorial this year because of a fund shortage, Samuel P. Huntington, chairman of the Government Department, said yesterday...
...large and democratic political organization, as you must surely recognize. It is run by no very tiny group of anybody. We are shocked by your remarks, and we feel that you owe an apology to the entire community and to radical students in particular. Kenneth Arrow, Samuel Bowles, Arthur MacEwan, Stephen Marglin, Thomas Weisskopf Department of Economics
...land to be President and Vice President, the nominating function was quickly grabbed by the parties. In 1796, when one Federalist elector in Pennsylvania voted for the opposition, an exasperated colleague uttered the now classic definition of the elector's job: "What, do I chuse Samuel Miles to determine for me whether John Adams or Thomas Jefferson shall be President? No! I chuse him to act, not think." With electors emasculated, party leaders in a few states pushed through the winner-take-all method of awarding a state's total electoral vote to the popular-vote champion...
Jackson's arguments against the process came back to life in 1876, when New York's Democratic Governor Samuel J. Tilden won the popular presidential vote with 4,287,670 ballots (50.9%). Even so, a special commission awarded the electoral votes of four disputed states to his opponent, Ohio's Republican Governor Rutherford B. Hayes, who thereupon squeaked into the White House by one electoral vote. Newspapers promptly pilloried Hayes as "His Fraudulency...