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Humphrey has concentrated on the same elements in Ohio that gave him victory in next-door Pennsylvania last Tuesday: the labor unions, the blacks, the Jews and the elderly. But Humphrey has been forced to divide his time between Ohio and Indiana, and CBS News last night described the former Vice-President as "plainly worried" about both states...
Diehards. In Wisconsin, the man to beat will be Humphrey. Because of his years as Senator from next-door Minnesota, Humphrey enjoys broad support from labor unions and farmers. A Public Broadcasting Service poll last week showed Humphrey with 18%, McGovern with 16% and Muskie with 13%. Says a Muskie organizer in Wisconsin: "Humphrey has diehard support. I myself won't watch him on TV for fear I'll weaken. For most of us here, Hubert is more than a candidate. He is a blood brother...
...general vacuity. All characters, whether bourgeois or proletarian, are stereotyped, and consequently become a kind of substitute reality in the minds of their audiences. Several years ago, when Jerry Mathers, the actor who played Beaver Cleaver, was rumored killed in Vietnam, people seemed almost more saddened than if their next-door neighbor had been a casualty. The cardboard character had become not more real, but more easily identifiable than the kid down the block. And in this attempt to foster respect for a substitute reality, All in the Family is in the mainstream of traditional television attitudes. This substitutereality, this...
Britain's decision to withdraw from the gulf was an unsettling blow to the Trucial States. One robed sheik explained why to TIME Correspondent Gavin Scott as they sat sipping Evian water in an Abu Dhabi hotel lobby. "We have a saying here that my next-door neighbor is my enemy, but the man from afar is my friend." So anxious was oil-rich Abu Dhabi to maintain a referee and peacekeeper in the area that it. quietly proposed to help cover British costs with a $60 million subsidy. When London demurred, the neighboring sheiks-who are all absolute...
...been tamed by civilization, Victor must finally accept love on his captor's terms, thereby closing off the possibilities of life that had been his in the forest. By the conclusion of Bed and Board, Antoine and Christine have transformed their relationship into an apparently mindless mechanism, causing their next-door neighbor to remark to her husband that the newlyweds are now "really in love...