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...G.O.P. congressional candidates (average age: 47.3) were mostly younger than their Democratic counterparts (49.6)?and they acted younger. While Soapy Williams reminisced about the New Deal in Michigan, Griffin cut rock-'n'-roll records for teenagers. In Illinois, Hubert Humphrey inadvertently underscored the generational gap between the Democratic and Republican styles in the senatorial campaign when he said, "The Senate without Paul Douglas would be like show business without Jimmy Durante"?who, at 73, now uses Old Man Time as a theme song. To the delight of Republican audiences in Wilkes-Barre and Philadelphia, outgoing Pennsylvania Governor William...
...Dodge pushed the Charger, Oldsmobile the Toronado, Cadillac the elegant Eldorado, and American Motors Corp. the Marlin. Chrysler-Plymouth cut a year off the development time of the Barracuda in order to get it on the road this year. Lincoln-Mercury has introduced the Cougar to fill the price gap between Mustang and Thunderbird. Chevrolet this fall introduced its Camaro, a frank copy of Mustang, to go along with the Corvair Monza which had been its interim lower-priced specialty car. In February, Pontiac, which already has the Tempest GTO model, will bring out its brand-new Firebird-also being...
...survey of the FM bands revealed nothing for the younger audience. A rock 'n' roll format would take advantage of this gap and yet not complete with WNAC's AM outlet...
...Malaysians prepared last week to greet President Johnson, they were hoping that the U.S. would fill the gap left by the departing British. Even before leaving on his trip, the President took measures to reassure the Malaysians. He ordered a reduction in U.S. sales of stockpiled rubber in order to bolster the price and thus help Malaysia, which supplies one-third of the world's rubber. U.S. aid officials were also studying requests for at least a modest amount of economic aid to support Malaysia's ambitious five-year development program, which would suffer if funds were diverted...
...Gap. The Doctors is a prime example of a respectable purpose spoiled by demagoguery. Doctors themselves no longer deny the need of putting their house in order; the more conscientious have begun to re-examine the gap between contemporary medicine and the Hippocratic oath. Where this book rests on statistics, it effectively states its case: a falling life expectancy in U.S. males, an infant-mortality rate that ranks eleventh in the roster of civilized nations (behind even Czechoslovakia), a medical educational establishment that not only fails to meet the numerical need but sometimes licenses inferior and undedicated...