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...campaigning. The estimated cost of the 1968 primaries and conventions for both parties was $45 million, a figure that will be far exceeded next year. Eugene McCarthy spent $11 million in a campaign that was centered on the primaries. Robert Kennedy entered seven primaries in an eleven-week whirlwind campaign at an estimated cost of $9 million. Richard Nixon managed to shake his loser image on the primary trail, but not before it cost his supporters between $10 million and $12 million...
...crime, fear of disorder, fear even of differences-that allows repression to flourish, those who succumb to their fears are as responsible as those who make political use of them. And in the end both will suffer equally. 'For they have sown the wind and they shall reap the whirlwind.'" Richard Harris, it seems, would add to this list of fears men's fears of making decisions. For the Senate, the Carswell episode was a trauma in decision making. Senators fear the absence of politics. They fear a situation in which their decision would be based not on the dictates...
...been the case throughout history, the destinies of white and black Southerners are inextricably interwoven. Slave and master, cracker and freedman, suburban executive and street-wise ghetto hustler have all been disfigured by racism. The emerging South is now facing that ancient whirlwind in its schools...
Last week, at 51, the dean of Ivy League executives, Goheen capped his whirlwind career by announcing that he will leave his post no later than June 1972. His motive for quitting was characteristically well considered and direct: "The term of a university president should normally not run beyond ten to 15 years at the outside...
...Whirlwind Tour. Author Gore Vidal, also quoted in the book, supports the princess all the way. "Beauty is exterior: it is not interior," he says. "Not only does it not matter if there's nothing inside, it probably helps. Character has a tendency to ruin looks." Meanwhile, Luciana, in the midst of a whirlwind U.S. tour promoting her book, is eager to get back to Europe. "I understand," she writes wistfully, "there is a doctor in Paris who does eyelash implants...