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James Howell, chief economist at the First National Bank of Boston: "There was a new consensus emerging, which of course included getting out of Viet Nam. The President was re-elected by a landslide. But now Nixon is ripping this consensus to pieces. The President is picking and tearing at the most sensitive nerve and the outcome is bound to be an upsurge of the type of dissent that appeared to be dying...
...pick a hole and go like hell." Cunningham is known as "Sam Bam" for his devastating blasts up the middle, and he is also an "exceptional blocker and capable pass catcher." Other running backs whom the scouts like include Chuck Foreman, 6 ft. 3 in., 200 lbs., Miami, and consensus All-America Greg Pruitt, Oklahoma, 5 ft. 9 in., 176 lbs., who will probably be turned into a wide receiver and kick-return specialist...
...there is one thing on which most medical men agree: that the U.S. is paying a stiff price for its eating habits. Though debate still goes on over the precise role which diet plays in several diseases, doctors have reached a consensus that it is a major factor in several serious ailments. Specifically...
...public board of inquiry to dissent from National Academy of Sciences National Research Council consumer-protection findings is somewhat unusual. It becomes questionable when we learn that the dean has been paid and sponsored by the very pharmaceutical company whose product he is defending. And if the apparent consensus of medical judgement on Mysteclin-F can be trusted, then Ebert's testimony before the FDA failed to damage the interests of medical consumers only because the advisory panel was wise enough to dismiss his arguments...
Despite the electoral consensus, then, smugness is not in order. The majority of blacks still ride belowdecks. The machine has raped the countryside (it is significant that the producers of The Emigrants returned to Sweden to film a "Minnesota" lake because they could find none in America that was sufficiently untouched). And if the war was not the major issue in the '72 campaign, surely it has left gaping and permanent tears in the country's psyche...