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Plagued by the elusive support for George Wallace and harried by a remarkably high proportion of voters who angrily refused to discuss their choice, the nation's major pollsters went into Election Day under a cloud of acrimony. George Gallup and Louis Harris had been markedly far apart for weeks on their reports of Hubert Humphrey's strength. In late September, Gallup placed the Democratic nominee 15 percentage points behind, while Harris consistently pegged Humphrey much closer, sometimes only half as far back...
...ugly cloud hovering over the games-student unrest-seems to have diminished. Troops still occupy the Santo Tomas campus of the National Polytechnic Institute, and police lurk in the hills surrounding the sports sites. The students are still bitter over government suppression of their protests, a small war that has claimed some 100 lives in the past two months. Nevertheless, the students, too, have caught the Olympic spirit. Said one youth: "It may seem difficult to understand, but we're all for the Olympics. The games will go well...
...CHINA CLOUD by William L Ryan and Sam Summerlin. 309 pages. Little, Brown...
...China Cloud, two Associated Press editors have put together an impressive research project dealing with the origins of China's nuclear know-how. It was the U.S. that gave China its start. Since the 1930s, a number of young Chinese science students had been arriving on U.S.-sponsored scholarships; many contributed to America's nuclear and missile technology. During the feverish Red hunts of the early 1950s, many of the scientists fled the U.S., while others were deported. Eighty returned to China-taking with them vast amounts of information-and were pressed into Mao Tse-tung...
...genesis of this cultural obstacle course was a 1965 State Department project, in which Clurman took five U.S. actors to Tokyo and there staged Long Day's Journey into Night for the edification of Japanese actors and di rectors. Later, Tokyo's prestigious Kumo (Cloud) theater company mount ed a Japanese version of the play, which was so successful that it actually broke even - a rare feat for any Japanese pro duction that is not traditional kabuki...