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...reporters by announcing decisions and appointments which he had disclaimed the day before. Last summer he announced Abe Fortas's appointment to the Supreme Court only a day after he had told reporters that he had not even begun to consider a successor to Justice Goldberg. An alarming "credibility gap" has arisen: The President and his staff often cannot bring themselves to reply "no comment" when it is clearly appropriate...
While federal and state mediators worked feverishly to end the strike, only one Boston paper-the nationally distributed, nonunionized Christian Science Monitor-continued to publish. To fill the news gap, the Harvard Crimson put out an extra four-page edition called the Boston Crimson. Cartoonist Al Capp read his own comic strip Li'l Abner over television for what he called the "culturally depraved people of Boston." Out-of-work newsmen appeared nightly on television, where they did not distinguish themselves. Reading the news in unmodulated voices with pained expressions on their faces, they stumbled over words while nervously...
...principal architect of the expansionary and prosperity producing economic policies of the past five years expressed a hope that America, which "accepted the idea of tax cut to close a deflationary gap," would understand tax increases to cool off an overheating economy, to close an "inflationary gap growing out of Vietnam...
With a crowd of about 150 chanting "We're number one" after every Eliot goal, Karl Rosenberger defected Woe Simmons' blue-line shot past the surprised Yale goalie for the only score of the second period. Eliot goalie "Itek" Etcheverry prevented the Elis from closing the gap with two sprawling saves on breakaway attempts...
...typical Sunday in the New York Times. The lead editorial urged limitation of U.S. forces in Viet Nam and endorsed the idea of "an interim national government acceptable to both sides." Columnist James Reston, also questioning U.S. policy in Viet Nam, brooded over the "gap between the evangelical rhetoric of official Washington and the political realities of the world." The lead letter in the letters-to-the-editor column, written by an assistant professor of humanities, excoriated the U.S. Government for its "blind antiCommunism" and detected a "nascent war psychosis" in the American public...