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...failure of the nation's leaders to demonstrate that they are in control of the various crises causes some political scientists to draw an analogy with the early 1930s. "We've got a deep sense of inadequate leadership," says Harvard Political Sociologist Seymour Martin Lipset, "so once again it is a ripe time for a charismatic leader." It seems doubtful, however, that America will turn to a demagogue for salvation. Men on horseback have never done well in the U.S., and there is nobody tall in the saddle in sight...
Meet the Press. The guest is Adm. Thomas Moorer, who will undoubtedly be questioned about Seymour Hersh's New York Times series that traced Pentagon spying to Moorer's office. Ch. 4, 4:30 p.m., 1/2 hour...
...campaign aides, an insurance salesman named Seymour Terry, the sort of nuts-and-bolts politico New York newspapers generally label "a veteran of the West Side political wars," started Beame's administration off with a bang. Terry sent a letter to his insurance customers informing them that his new position as the city's director of special programs would undoubtedly mean "even greater benefits" for them than they'd had in the past. When The New York Times published the letter, Terry acknowledged that it had been poorly worded. Beame asked Terry to resign. That was only the beginning...
Yule Letter. Beame ran into trouble with one of his first nominees. As a reward for long service to the city's Democratic regulars, he named Seymour Terry, 55, his official campaign manager and a Queens insurance man, to a $39,500-a-year post as a special assistant to the mayor. Terry celebrated by sending 600 clients a yuletide letter that could have been phrased more discreetly, to say the least. "My new circumstances," went the message, "will no doubt enable you to get even greater benefits from your association with Terry Brokerage Co. than you have heretofore...
...last decade has not all been triumph at the Times. It was badly outdistanced by the Washington Post on Watergate. Not until the Times in 1972 hired Seymour Hersh, who first exposed the My Lai massacre, did its Washington bureau do much in the way of investigative reporting. Shrinking profits have twice prompted Publisher Arthur Ochs ("Punch") Sulzberger to send somber Yuletide messages to employees warning of economies ahead. Its editorial staff has been trimmed slightly...