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...pumped some $1.5 billion into state and local law-enforcement agencies, although much of it has gone for riot-control gear and other unproductive frills. Far more effective has been the Administration's drive against organized crime. This is expected to continue, as is a new emphasis on antitrust prosecutions, including jail terms for corporate price fixers, and new attention to such white-collar criminals as stock manipulators, tax dodgers and perpetrators of consumer frauds...
...benefit of the 18-year-old voters, Nixon attacked by creeping "Watergate bugs." Don Hesse of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat reserved much of his fire for McGovern's foot-in-mouth campaign statements and woeful showing in the polls; a characteristic Hesse offering shows McGovern, in tattered football gear, telling a dispirited huddle, "Cheer up?we're 3rd down and 85 yds. to go." More often than not, the press found itself in that same dilemma?playing catch-up ball in a sprawling, chaotic game. In retrospect, readers must be grateful that team members scored as many times...
...OCTOBER, THE MONTH when campaigns are supposed to move into high gear, George McGovern's national political coordinator, Frank Mankiewicz, pulled aside a political adviser with Harvard connections. Was a confident Mankiewicz offering a cabinet position in the McGovern Administration? Not exactly...
...undergraduate recruiter will be expected to visit his home town high school, answer questions about Harvard, and give applications to interested students, Smith said. "We want to gear the recruitment program towards freshmen undergraduates because they are more likely to know the most high school students, and they have been through the application process more recently...
Rojas trailed nearly all of his teammates and competitors up the first hill of the race, but then got in gear at about the one-mile mark and took the lead. Rojas then increased his lead for the rest of the race, winning finally by about 250 yards...