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...divided labor obviously offers much less support to the Democratic nominee than a united labor. Since most of the unions contribute to COPE, the political arm of the AFL-CIO, the McGovern committee has not been able to scrape up enough cash to conduct a registration drive-a traditional element in a Democratic presidential campaign. Nor do they work very comfortably alongside McGovern's operatives. Some labor leaders remain hawks. Says Joe Keenan flatly: "I support the President on the war." McGovern staffers, on the other hand, continue to downplay labor as if they think that they...
...Whom do the Democrats think they are kidding? We are not all a bunch of idiots who believe everything we hear or see. Mr. McGovern had to scrape the bottom of the barrel when he was looking for a running mate...
...your house was flooded, look for sinking foundations, cracks in walls or baseboards, and other signs of collapse. You may have to scrape mud off the walls with a shovel, or wash down the walls with a hose to prevent rotting...
There are nearly 10,000 mass, medium-size and small magazines in America. All of them are competing for attention in the open marketplace. Under normal circumstances each year, some are born, a few flourish, most scrape by and some die. This is as it should be. No magazine can rightfully ask for a handout or a federal grant. But both mass and specialty magazines can ask to be spared from radical changes in the rules of economic engagement, from cost increases that demolish all previous cost equations. It requires little imagination to predict what would happen to the hundreds...
TIME'S economists also believe that price controls have not yet begun to grip really hard, but that they will soon begin to do so-and there will be increasing complaints from business leaders as their companies scrape against the profit ceilings. At that time, probably several months from now, serious talk of relaxed controls can be expected. Price Commission Chairman C. Jackson Grayson hopes that the rate of inflation will be low enough to allow controls to be scrapped when the congressional authorization for them expires next April. He would prefer that Congress not even enact stand...