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What little attention New Hampshire voters are giving to their presidential primary has been concentrated on the Democrats. They have paid scant heed to President Nixon's two rivals on the Republican side, a brace of U.S. Representatives who differ drastically in ideology but otherwise turn out to have a good deal in common. They are California's Paul ("Pete") McCloskey, 44, a Kennedy-esque Marine Reserve colonel who wants the U.S. out of Viet Nam at once, and Ohio's John Ashbrook, 43, a deep-dyed conservative who deplores Nixon's "leftward drift" on welfare...
Austria is a small country (pop. 7.4 million) that lives by its wits and its scant resources. One of those resources is a reservoir of expertise in skimaking, which equips a leisure-time activity that is growing phenomenally all over the world. The number of skiers in all countries has jumped from an estimated 3,000,000 since World War II to the present 15 million. The Austrian ski industry now makes more than a quarter of all the world's skis. Last year 230 Austrian firms exported about $80 million in ski equipment and clothing, more than three...
...message "Jim Carney may not be a brother, but he's got soul" were aired at the same time he was pandering to anti-black sentiments on the West Side. As it turned out Carney-West, with the result that the combined effort was a dismal failure. A scant three days before the election, the Cleveland Plain Dealer predicted that Carney would edge out Pinkney, with Perk finishing a poor third. What actually occurred was that Perk won handily with 38.7 per cent of the total, beating Pinkney by 16,000 votes. Pseudo-brother Carney finished third with only...
...make clear the meaning of the "new populism" he offered as an alternative. He vigorously argued for a redistribution of income, yet failed to outline in detail how it could be accomplished. He proposed such specifics as breaking up General Motors into five or six separate companies but offered scant evidence that such plans were feasible. On television, he was surprisingly docile, uncertain and easily intimidated. Harris' withdrawal will have little effect on the remaining Democratic hopefuls, other than to reduce the crowding in the field...
Fiddler on fhe Roof now joins the company of Star!, Hello, Dolly!, Paint Your Wagon and Dr. Dolittle-the last, lumbering dinosaurs from the era of big-budget musicals. The qualities that have kept the Broadway Fiddler running these seven years are in scant supply onscreen. Gone with barely a trace are warmth, joy, insight and even the most elementary kind of entertainment. The story of Tevye, the milkman of a small village in czarist Russia around the time of the pogroms, his nagging wife and his nubile daughters, is a modest affair requiring intimate treatment. Instead, it gets...