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Filling the Gap. Despite the new mood of concern in Natchez, however, Mississippi's standards of justice still leave something to be desired. More than a dozen Negroes and civil rights workers have either been murdered or died mysteriously there in the past three years without a single conviction by state courts and, in many cases, without even indictments. Last week the Justice Department, using a combination of old Reconstruction laws and new civil rights measures, none of them truly appropriate for so serious a crime as murder, moved to fill the gap in two of the more notorious...
...Unlike Romney, however, Goldwater's view is that the war "actually seems to be going better now." Indeed, Barry has never had any difficulty figuring out his own view of Viet Nam. His prognosis is that any slowdown in the U.S. military effort would constitute a "sanity gap...
...Yale Drama School Dean Robert Brustein, went into tub-thumping ecstasy over MacBird, which promised a dramatic severing of President Johnson's head. In addition, it capitalized emotionally on a winter of public discontent with L.B.J.-the poll-recorded loss of favor with the electorate, the supposed credibility gap, concern about Viet Nam, Johnson's embroilment with the Kennedy clan...
...Want to Hold Your Hand, the Beatles have developed into the single most creative force in pop music. Wherever they go, the pack follows. And where they have gone in recent months, not even their most ardent supporters would ever have dreamed of. They have bridged the heretofore impassable gap between rock and classical, mixing elements of Bach, Oriental and electronic music with vintage twang to achieve the most compellingly original sounds ever heard in pop music...
Onstage at Detroit's Cobo Hall was a line of four U.S.-made compact cars and four small imports-with a wide space in the middle. Pointing at the gap, American Motors Chairman Roy D. Chapin Jr. proclaimed: "The center of this market has been unoccupied-until today!" On that cue, a shiny new Rambler American burst through a paper partition. It carried a new, low price tag, which, said Chapin, would make it a "total value superior to the imports and superior in both price and range of choice" to U.S. compacts...