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Johnson has proven his ability to get things done. Regardless of how one assesses the impact of President Kennedy's death on the Congress, Johnson's skill in passing twenty-four of thirty "must" pieces of legislation is unquestioned. His sense of the possible is remarkably true since he never flinched in his support of the two major bills, Civil Rights and the Tax Cut. His ability to conciliate when necessary enabled him to settle a threatened national rail strike without compulsory arbitration, a feat which had eluded countless negotiators. And his sense of direction may be inferred from...
...prophet. By polling a given number of people, Harris said, he can determine how the country feels about an issue at the time the poll is taken. In a situation where feelings change rapidly, however, polls cannot be taken close enough to the election to reflect the full impact of the changes. Harris and Dr. Gallup were able to predict in New Hampshire that a trend was running towards Lodge, but they underestimated it. The same was true of the Goldwater trend in California...
...abandoned patient in a mental hospital provides a feeling of personal relation and responsibility lacking in the curriculum. The Peace Corps or civil rights activity may provide similar compensation. Of course this is only a small minority of students, just as only a small minority resist the liberalizing impact of higher education by joining the Young Americans for Freedom and other student right wing cadres. But the former group of compassionate students may be showing how the universities can tie themselves, as some are beginning to do, to local school systems or distant beleaguered colleges, such as the relation that...
Cynical Hymns. While Lovely War has the cumulative impact of an artillery barrage, the show's tone evolves from fragmentary vignettes. Here is Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, whose suicidal "big pushes" cost more than 500,000 lives, announcing with pious conviction: "Machine-gun bullets have no stopping power against the horse." Here are veterans of phosgene attacks sardonically harmonizing "Gassed last night, and gassed the night before," followed closely by a home-front operatic duo warbling Roses of Picardy. There is a moving hands-across-the-trenches interlude in which German and British troops put down their guns...
Last week, at a Philadelphia meeting of economists from all over the U.S., this spending was given major credit for keeping the U.S. economy advancing. Teen-agers have a far greater impact than even their large income suggests, said Du Pont Economist Charles B. Reeder, the father of a teen-age son. Reeder based his prediction of continued economic advance in the nation largely on the growing economic power of the twelve-to-19 group, chided his colleagues for "paying too little attention to the teen-ager's existence, economically speaking...