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...proposition on which all the Western intelligence experts agree, it is that more unites the Soviet Union and Communist China than divides them. But what divides them is becoming more and more conspicuous. Ageless national conflicts are already pulling Russia and China in different directions. Under the impact of their exploding population, the Chinese are moving westward and northward into the border lands of Mongolia, Sinkiang and Manchuria (where population has doubled since...
...measured by pollsters, the missile gap's impact on public opinion has been faint so far-partly because of widespread public confidence that President Eisenhower knows plenty about defense, partly because the public tends to see national defense as part of the larger issue of "peace," which also takes in the aims and conduct of foreign policy. Public-opinion probers find that the public 1) puts "keeping the peace" far ahead of all other national issues, and 2) believes, by a margin of 7 to 5, that the Republican Party is able to keep the peace better than...
Since it involves basic Government policies that affect the lives of all citizens, the "growth" controversy may be the most important domestic issue of the 1960 campaign. But so far it has had little impact on public opinion. As the public sees it, the No. 1 economic issue by far is the high cost of living. Paradoxically, the public feels, by a margin of 8 to 5 in a Gallup poll, that the Democratic Party, rather than the Republican, is more interested in trying to hold down prices. In public opinion, apparently, the long spell of price upcreep beginning...
...needs half an evening of won't-you-walk-into-my-parlor? before he is ready with his parlor game; and is perhaps overready to have his American convict himself, to create another death of a salesman. Even with good acting, the play does not really have enough impact: Duerrenmatt's story does not quite emerge as a well-rounded play; the clever game never quite reaches the level of a serious judgment...
This role of the press has constitutional guarantees and historical precedents. The first journalist with national impact was undoubtedly Thomas Paine, who emigrated to the Colonies from England in 1774 and found his calling: diarist of the Revolution. His pamphlets, independently published but genuine precursors of interpretive journalism, inflamed the colonists to revolt; Common Sense sold better than 300,000 copies, turned Tories into Whigs, and was read to troops standing at attention in the field...