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...moment he first set foot in New Hampshire in his quixotic quest of the presidency, Minnesota's Democratic Senator Eugene McCarthy has been about as diffident as a campaigner can be without actually withdrawing from the race. But last week McCarthy finally broke the ice, so to speak...
...states with tougher poultry-inspection rules, 5) federal standards on the purity and quality of fish, 6) a safety program for pleasure boats, 7) clearer warranties on appliances and a federal eye on the quality of repairs, and 8) a "consumers' counsel" in the Justice Department to speak up in court for that perpetual patsy, the consumer. "Do you foresee the repeal of Barnum's law?"* a newsman asked as Ramsey Clark glowingly outlined this point. Smiled Clark: "You never can tell...
Drunken Pretzel. As an analyst of affluence, Galbraith does not speak from the curious outside. He summers on the family's 247-acre farm near Newfane, Vt., spends part of each winter at a commodious rented chalet in Gstaad, an elegant ski resort in Switzerland. William Buckley, a sometime skiing companion, says that Galbraith looks like "a drunken pretzel" coming down the slopes, but another observer describes his form as "graceful, lordly, solemn even?like Charles de Gaulle going down an escalator...
Physicist Ralph Lapp was part of the Manhattan Project, and long served as a nuclear specialist for the Defense Department. In recent years, however, he has severed connections with all Government projects and thus is free to speak out on U.S. nuclear and weapons policies. Speak out he does. Last week at the University of Washington, Lapp not only criticized the U.S. decision to deploy a thin anti-ballistic missile (ABM) defense system, but also pointed out the damage the system could wreak on the very population it was intended to protect...
What resulted was sheer anarchy. For the first general session of the four-day conference at the Sheraton-Park Hotel, the editors found 500 chairs arranged in a circle, with 17 microphones placed at intervals. The idea was that anyone could speak whenever he felt like it. Those who felt most like it were hippie citizens of "Drop City," Colo., decked out in dungarees, headbands and feathers. "If I heard someone say once he was 'doing his thing,' I heard it a hundred times," reports Charles DeCarlo, director of automation research for IBM. Along with Buckminster Fuller...