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...headlines but have not altered government policies. Most members regard anti-war activity with a mounting sense of frustration and impotence. They often begin speeches with the disclaimer: "Well, probably nothing we can do now will prevent escalation ...." And many fear that the radical commitments of the membership will wane unless it comes to view short-run set-backs in a longer-range "critical radical perspective." If the shock troops do not understand tactics in terms of consistent and systematic radical analysis, they will eventually desert the movement...
...Only a fraction get into the newspapers: from 1955 to 1965, U.S. papers devoted only 3% of their space to crime news. Americans believe that publicity is vital to justice; the press has often dug up evidence that exonerated as well as implicated defendants. Inflammatory reporting is on the wane. Even if it recurs, the Supreme Court's Sheppard decision ordered trial judges to combat it with long available devices. They should hold pretrial hearings in private, grant continuances and changes of venue, select jurors from distant localities, sequester jurors to make sure that they do not read papers...
...even the Germans are beginning to realize that they have gone too far, and compulsive handshaking is finally on the wane. A recent poll showed that 23% of all German adults are against handshaking as the normal way to greet people. Germany's largest tabloid daily, Bild Zeitung, recently denounced handshaking in a front-page story, declaring that "not only is handshaking unhygienic and impractical but it also wastes too much valuable time." West Germany's unquestioned arbiter of social grace, the Expert Committee for Good Manners (a branch of the German Dancing Teachers League), has joined...
...same time that the box office was holding up, however, Beatlemania seemed to be on the wane. The airports were not staked out with hysterical hordes awaiting the boys' arrival; their hotels were less under siege. In New York City last week, cops counted only about 500 kids gathered around the hotel v. 10,000 the year before, and the Beatles' trip to Shea Stadium by armored truck seemed dictated more by showmanship than necessity. True, two girls did threaten to jump off a Manhattan hotel roof in the Beatles' honor. But the girls were combing their...
...Right, against the New Deal, Fair Deal, big government, and anything he thought Communistic - and he thought quite a few things were. His extreme positions - such as crusading for Joseph McCarthy - disillusioned many of his faithful fans and caused both his impact and his audience to wane...