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More obviously, there are objections to the Viet Nam War and to the growing difficulties of day-today living in the U.S.-urban congestion, pollution, racial unrest, constant apprehension over violence and crime. Actor Steve McQueen plans to move with his wife and two children to Switzerland next year. Says his wife Neile, who was a friend of the murdered Sharon Tate: "I sleep with a gun under my pillow because I don't trust anybody. We have an electric alarm at the gate and house alarm system, and it's still not enough. This...
...chairman of the Fund, said last week that the Fund is caught in an economic bind. Inflationary pressures have made an annual increase in alumni giving imperative to meet the costs of higher education, but the economic decline of the country has combined with alumni uneasiness over student unrest to hold back the needed increase...
There has been "virtually a blackout of news" about the anti-American unrest in both the South Vietnamese and American press, Frederick said. "Political repression is increasing. It is inevitable that a crackdown is going to begin...
...unblack." The typical American voter is "the forty-seven-year-old wife of a machinist living in suburban Dayton, Ohio." Her major concern is what the authors call the Social Issue, "a set of public attitudes concerning the more frightening aspects of social change": crime, race riots, campus unrest, pornography, and moral permissiveness. But-and this is where the Administration misread the book-she is not going to buy hysterical rhetoric and excessive reaction to these issues...
...appalling. One had only to observe Richard Nixon during the recent elections to see how appalling they are. The President avoided most major issues. He did not discuss inflation, unemployment, Cambodia, the Middle East, Vietnam, foreign policy in general, pollution control, civil rights, or the causes of student unrest. Rather, he and Agnew made frantic appeals around the Social Issue: promiscuity, drugs, pornography, campus unrest, "law and order." Their approach to these problems followed the book's advice when, for instance the authors suggest how to talk about student radicals...