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...that the nation necessarily wants a Boulanger in charge. What the campaign so far does suggest, however, is that most voters are confused by the war, unsure about what to do about urban blight, and dismayed by charges of pervasive racism. They want more than a welter of new commitments, more than a mind-boggling array of plans to finance urban redevelopment. Rather, they want precisely what Lyndon Johnson has not given them--a kind of rhetorical coherence, a feeling that if the problems are tough, at last someone has a decent idea of how to start dealing with them...
...qualify him as a one-man conglomerate. She has five children and five establishments in Lexington, Ky., Saratoga, Manhattan, Manitoba, Canada, and 100,000 acres of the Adirondacks. So Marylou and her two secretaries (one in New York and one in Kentucky) spend a lot of time in a welter of lists, files and details. She likes to dash off notes to the help about buying ham at less than $5 a pound: As she says: "Money does not grow on trees." And then there are decisions-decisions like what movies to choose for the Adirondacks this summer and whom...
Hersey treads carefully amid the welter of conflicting stories about the killings; he gives all the participants, as it were, their day in court. But he leaves no doubt as to where his own sympathies lie. The Negro youths, he asserts, were "executed" not for being snipers but for "being considered punks, for making out with white girls, for being in some vague way killers of a white cop, for running riot-for being black young men and part of the black rage of the time...
Surprisingly, S.D.S. at the University of Iowa is stronger than at Berkeley, where the local chapter is lost in a welter of radical campus groups. To raise funds, says Graduate Student Leonard Goldberg, 22, Berkeley's S.D.S. is often reduced to "throwing a party, charging a dollar a head and serving cheap beer." Money is a problem almost everywhere. The national S.D.S. owes the Federal Government $10,000 in back taxes. Receiving little money from headquarters, Columbia Graduate John Fuerst, 23, hitchhikes around the country as one of S.D.S.'s eight at-large national officers. Fuerst...
...welter of contested issues facing the Paris negotiators leaves prospects for genuine peace uncertain at best. It is clear that any final solution will require concessions far greater than the Johnson administration has shown any willingness to consider...