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...rest of George McGovern's campaign had gotten off to a halting start, Vice Presidential Candidate Sargent Shriver was already bringing an early New Frontier élan to the race. Some of his bright-eyed lieutenants recruited from the old Peace Corps ranks even seemed to welcome Richard Nixon's lead in the polls. Said one breathlessly: "It's so much more of a challenge this way, don't you think?" TIME Correspondent Timothy Tyler spent four days following the Shriver campaign and offered these impressions: At McGovern-Shriver headquarters in Washington, one of Sargent Shriver...
...same time, faculty members in the sciences were raising objections to the very idea of an Undergraduate Science Center. The educational gains to be gotten--reserving an area especially adapted for undergraduates, where they would have lab space free of intervening researchers--seemed to some to be outweighed by the educational costs. If a center was given to undergraduates, there would be no learning from nearby graduate students or sharing in the process of original research. Professors would only be there on a visiting basis, going in and out for lectures and a few scattered office hours per week...
...policy. Now any piece you do will probably have less impact than one coming out of Washington or Paris." NBC's Jones, who has done several previous stints in Viet Nam, now wonders whether the new risks make the story worthwhile. "If I'd known things had gotten this dangerous," he says, "I'd have thought twice about coming back here...
...them. Bill spends part of the evening searching for his namesake, but makes sure he sees the show. We've all made good friends with him, such good friends that he spends his backstage time with us, instead of the more important people. It's only fair: I'd gotten to like...
Diane first told us about Argent. It was two years ago, and a friend and I used to go into the Coop record department just to hand out, because we never had any money. We'd just gotten to be regulars, the point at which people began to mistake us for employees, when we met Diane, who really did work there. We started to show up just to see her. And everytime we did, she'd slide over and say just one word, "Argent," in a very sultry voice. Seemed she sang with a band, which had played a weekend...