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...inflation, that could be called, in traditional terms, conservative. But the voters' antigovernment mood appeared more cautious than many prophets had predicted. The mood instead seemed quirky, dissatisfied, independent. While some notable liberals like Senator Dick Clark of Iowa were defeated, so were some right-wingers like Governor Meldrim Thomson of New Hampshire, and in a few states, like Massachusetts, people voted for both sides at once. Worries about widespread apathy also seemed to be exaggerated, though people turned out to vote in somewhat smaller numbers than usual (see chart page...
...only comment is thank God that the Times is back," James C. Thomson Jr., curator of the Nieman Fellowships, a Harvard program for professional journalists, said yesterday. "We never knew how much we needed it until it wasn't around," he added...
...discontent. Groups such as the highway lobby, medical associations, state employees and state contractors have provided King with $1.3 million of campaign boodle. His espousal of inflexible mandatory prison sentences, Proposition 13, the death penalty and anti-abortion legislation has earned King the support of New Hampshire Gov. Meldrim Thomson and the ubiquitous Howard Jarvis...
...basis of that brief report, Boston Magazine gets my Turkey of the year award," James C. Thomson Jr., curator of the Nieman Foundation, said yesterday...
Thus, it is no surprise to see Gov. Meldrim Thomson of New Hampshire react with riot police, mass arrests and full-page ads in The New York. Times which decry anti-nuclear protesters as soldiers for an un-American way of life--neo-Communist purveyors of revolution. Perhaps for the first time in his life, he is right...