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...Navy's claim of preventing two-thirds of new cavities is overoptimistic, and they emphasize that a program like the Navy's, which the Army and Air Force are now adopting, is no substitute for general fluoridation. The Navy never said it was. But after the massive consensus reached years ago on the value of fluorides for children, there is growing agreement that fluorides in the water, plus periodic paintings and regular use of fluoridated toothpastes, give some degree of protection against cavities at all ages...
Riegle said local officials saw him as a strong "consensus" candidate since he has not been identified with either conservative or moderate wings of the Michigan Republican party...
...fuzzing of issues, the uneasy consensus, accounts for the prominence of personality. Personality, in turn, generally accounts for the significant lead that Labour now enjoys in the public opinion polls...
...frustrating impotence of vanished power masquerades as the moral virtue of a troubled conscience. Going off on tangents, staging diversionary incidents, piling on self-indulgent rhetoric: all these would have been enough to spoil the play. But Arden has a much more drastic flaw. He tries to practice consensus drama, a contradiction in terms. For Serjeant Musgrave's Dance to possess any intrinsic vitality, there would have to be a respectable body of thought holding that war is heavenly. As it is, Arden is merely preaching sermons to the converted, and universal agreement is the most potent sleeping powder...
...Committee interest cards at registration this year as did last year. A large part of the explanation no doubt lies in what one member calls "the Vietnam hang-up", and it is just in the area of controversial foreign policy that Young Dems is most constrained, most lacking in consensus, and least able to make meaningful policy statements. "What are we supposed to try to be?" one member has demanded defensively. "A junior SDS? A more moderate SDS? What the hell are we in this...