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...Prize Worth Winning. Talk of 1968 is, of course, premature. But the very intensity and fervor with which it erupted even before all the ballots were counted was itself a reflection of the G.O.P.'s vastly improved outlook and buoyant spirits. In 1964, the liberal Eastern Establishment's so-called "kingmakers," figuring that the nomination was scarcely worth having against an ebullient, efficient L.B.J., crumbled after putting up a feeble fight against Goldwater. By their reasoning, it was as good a time as any to exorcise the right wing's dream that it could sweep the nation by offering voters...
...decided to work first on the universities, which he felt had kindled little revolutionary fervor among youth. Even worse, few universities had paid attention to the children of peasants, whom Mao saw as the great hope of the revolution...
...bedlam last week as staffers struggled against time to complete arrangements for the President's Far Eastern swing. If for no other reason, it was an ideal time for Lyndon Johnson to hit the campaign trail, and so he did - with a bang. Displaying all the old evangelistic fervor of his 1964 campaign, the President made a fast-paced overnight foray into Maryland, New York and Delaware, at week's end prepared for a brief, last-minute appearance in Pennsylvania...
Today, although well-oiled lobbying may be more effective and mass demonstrations more dramatic, the U.S. is witnessing a marked resurgence of petitions. With Chartist fervor, miles of signatures are collected each year on hand-drawn circulars passed from neighbor to neighbor, in organized mail campaigns, or to adorn elaborate newspaper ads. The greatest impetus to the petition business has been Viet Nam, but other, infinitely varied causes range from civic issues, such as the restoration of trolleys on New Orleans' Canal Street, to campus concerns, such as student demands at Berkeley that the university hospital provide birth control...
Thus, with endowment funds bulging, music-school enrollments soaring, and campus performing-arts centers shooting up like shopping centers, college recruiters are raiding orchestras with all the fervor of pro-football scouts. At Indiana University, for instance, the music department lists 40 teachers from top U.S. orchestras, including three former concertmasters and 15 first-desk players, and such internationally ranked soloists as Violist William Primrose and Cellist Janos Starker. Boasting five campus orchestras and the resident Berkshire String Quartet, Indiana last year sponsored 501 musical events. Snaring topflight musicians is easy, says Indiana's Dean Wilfred Bain (with some...