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Philadelphia's tabloid Daily News, once a shiftless tatterdemalion, has been gunning hard for circulation since Democratic Backer Matthew H. McCloskey Jr. took it over two years ago, infused it with money and ambition. Its chief rival: Publisher Walter Annenberg's Inquirer. Last week, in the climax of a month-long barrage, the News's guns pounded not only at the Inquirer's circulation, but at alleged payroll padding and loan-shark operations within the paper itself...
Robert G. McCloskey, associate professor of Government at Harvard, speaking July 19 on the "Republican Outlook," said that the G.O.P. as "a party of no principles," has an excellent chance to capture the national and local elections this year...
...McCloskey qualified his statement concerning the Republicans' lack of true principles with examples comparing past ideals of the Party, such as isolationism and big business, with present contradictions, such as internationalism and friendship towards labor. This leaves the G.O.P. "without any real party principles," McCloskey concluded...
Robert G. McCloskey, associate professor of Government at Harvard, claimed that "it is a commonplace political observation that Nixon would not help the Republican ticket." He felt that a fight over the vice-presidential candidate "would show that some people are thinking and that Nixon is not quite vice-presidential material...
...McCloskey was not certain that such a contest would develop, but he pointed out that if one did, it could hurt the Republicans only if Nixon...