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...decide what is good for Europe and for our country is a matter of reason, of faith and instinct. It is a problem of conscience for each one of us, and I have spoken in accordance with mine...
Even the jeers, however, were moderate and dignified, and Republican Riegelman, with a roller canary's fierce, hot instinct for the jugular, left town in the midst of the uproar to confer with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles over the problem of U.S. policy toward Israel-a matter with some bearing on New York City's Jewish vote. The New York Daily News poll, hastily rejiggered to compensate for Impy's absence from the languid battle, showed Wagner ahead, 2 t01, nine days before election. But if the whole campaign had been conceived to drive...
...seem to feel that because their papers supported Ike, their hands are tied, that all stories must be favorable. Said one cynical newsman: "Reporters don't have to be told any more than milkwagon horses. They learned all the stops long ago, and they do it just by instinct.-Many a newsman also seems overawed by Ike's national popularity. "I don't think our readers are ready for critical reporting yet," says a top columnist...
Capp went on to describe the American Girl as 90 percent mating instinct and 10 percent self-preservation. "Every day is Sadie Hawkins...
These one-man, grass-root surveys of public opinion leave me skeptical. People are polite by instinct and tend to tell the inquisitive stranger what they think the stranger wants to hear, or at least something that won't hurt his feelings...