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...PRODUCTION isn't any better than the written material. The wooden panelling makes the thrust set look more opulent than I'd think even two Dartmouth boys could afford, and the Lehman Hall lighting is blindingly dead...
Spoilsport. The credentials fight had been an ironic affair. The moral thrust of the reforms by which McGovern ascended was to guarantee just representation for all factions of the party. California election law would seem to violate the spirit of those reforms. In fact, McGovern, as original chairman of the party reform commission, had opposed the winner-take-all idea, but he was outvoted. Days before the primary, Humphrey said that he would not challenge it if he should lose. "They've decided what they want to do here," he told CBS-TV'S Walter Cronkite...
...about 15,000 in Japan, the Philippines, Guam and Okinawa) reflects the changing U.S. role in Viet Nam. By September, only about 1,000 U.S. troops will be in ground-combat roles, and their task will be solely to protect American installations supplying South Vietnamese armed forces. The main thrust of the present American effort is in bombing, though Nixon was careful to note at his press conference last week that South Viet Nam's air force is now flying 40% of its tactical air sorties over the South. Even so, Nixon insisted that there would be no letup...
...evidence was uncovered in South Africa's Transvaal in an unusual formation of sedimentary rock. Once probably part of a shallow ocean bottom, the stratified rock has now been thrust to the surface and scientists can easily examine it. When Schopfs team compared the relative abundance of the two principal isotopes of carbon in each of the formation's many layers, they made an intriguing discovery. In the newer layers, those formed more recently than 3.3 billion years ago, carbon 12 and carbon 13 appeared in approximately the same ratio as they do in more modern deposits known...
...wealth to those with incomes of less than $12,000 annually, McGovern has proposed reforms that would sock it even harder to high earners. Humphrey has optimistically promised to come up with his special reform plan within 90 days after winning the presidency. There is a common thrust to the Democrats' main points...