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...however, an easy election to decipher. Gone were the sharp, divisive ideological issues that had enlivened and embittered previous campaigns. Foreign or defense policies, for example, were seldom brought up. If there was a national consensus to do something to resist high taxes, spending and inflation, that could be called, in traditional terms, conservative. But the voters' antigovernment mood appeared more cautious than many prophets had predicted. The mood instead seemed quirky, dissatisfied, independent. While some notable liberals like Senator Dick Clark of Iowa were defeated, so were some right-wingers like Governor Meldrim Thomson of New Hampshire...
...than with making trouble for Western reporters, appeared to be growing bored with the whole issue. UNESCO Director-General Amadou Mahtar M'Bow of Senegal, whose ambition is to succeed Kurt Waldheim as U.N. Secretary-General, is staking his prestige on passage of a mass media declaration, preferably by consensus. To that end, delegates from Western and nonaligned nations were caucusing last week to come up with a compromise acceptable to the U.S. Some American opponents of the declaration seem ready to go along. They note that it is not binding, and that Third World governments hardly need the permission...
Poty's formula has worked well for the team. Coaches and players rave (and that's pretty much a consensus view) about this year's attitude. "This is the closest total squad group I've ever had here and a lot of that comes from what we're talking about in Steve," says Restic...
...recent article in the journal "Science" states that a consensus of scientists believes a once-crucial piece of evidence for the theory of the genetic inheritability of IQ was false and possibly fabricated...
Several administrators and faculty members of the Kennedy School, including Ira A. Jackson '71, associate dean of the school, sat in on the meeting. At the next meeting, the students will try to reach a consensus on what action should be taken on the Engelhard issue