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Playing John Alden. "It would be a disaster to the Republican Party," Barry Goldwater has said of the Wallace candidacy. Opinion polls confirm this judgment. Thus when Michigan's George Romney ventured South last week, he made Wallace rather than the national Democrats his principal target. A third party bid, said Romney, would be a "tragedy...
Just as the Government should replace cant with candor, so the dissenters need a strong dose of realism and responsibility. Among the great legal lessons of the civil rights movement, for example, is the rule that a demonstration must be reasonably related to a specific target of protest. Demonstrators who glorify the Viet Cong, burn flags or draft cards, urge the world in general to "make love, not war," are indulging in dissent for dissent's sake. They are staging a mindless happening devoid of rational ideas...
...Defense Departments that they would not be touched. Moreover, Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara had said only a few weeks earlier that "under present circumstances-and this belief can change as time goes by-we think the loss in U.S. lives will be less if we pursue our present target policy than they would, were we to attack those airfields." McNamara could have avoided the problem-and reduced the credibility gap-simply by declining to comment on specific targets...
...very last, his defensive play was the difference. Behind by only a point with 15 seconds to go, the Warriors still might have won if Barry had been able to see anything but Wilt looming between him and the backboard. Barry's hopeless shot sailed far off target, and the 76ers picked up another two points on a foul. Final score: Philadelphia 125, San Francisco 122, thus giving the 76ers their first championship and ending Wilt's eight-year frustration over the fact that he had never been on a title-winning team...
Unlucky 15. The rumors were given credence by Soyuz's name (it means "union") and its initial low and nearly circular orbit, which appeared to be designed to make Soyuz an easier rendezvous target. Also, the orbit's 51.5° inclination to the equator was close to the 51° parking-orbit inclination previously used by unmanned Russian moon probes...