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Changed Mood. There was a similar evolution of opinion among Congressmen, particularly Republicans. On Tuesday, they lined up to praise Nixon from the floor of the House. After a day of reading, however, the Republican mood began to change. As Democratic Leader Thomas P. ("Tip") O'Neill of Massachusetts noted...
The American political system is built in part on contingency planning, and it could be that what is happening in Washington is nothing more than that. Yet it is another part of the tide that rises against Nixon. On the day that Spiro Agnew resigned, Mel Laird looked at his...
The pursuit continues in Passages About Earth. From ample but largely gloomy evidence of rapid social change - future shock, ecological disruption, population explosion, proliferation of information - Thompson draws a startling conclusion: "We are the climactic generation of human cultural evolution." Man, he asserts, will now either slide back into a...
Which way will we go? The author opts for evolution. While such optimism is as welcome as it is rare these days, it is largely based on mysticism and intimations of a "new planetary culture," which Thompson shares with Philosopher Teilhard de Chardin and Science-Fiction Writer Arthur C. Clarke...
New York Psychiatrist Charles Socarides, who circulated the petition demanding the referendum, calls the ruling "the medical hoax of the century." Says Socarides: "It is flying in the face of the one fact we know, which is that male and female are programmed to mate with the opposite sex, and...