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...educating the nation about how Presidents are chosen and how the office of the presidency has lately been abused. Then in 1976, if the climate seems auspicious, the committee may nominate its own candidate for President and petition to get his name on state ballots. So goes the ambitious scenario, and there is no doubt about who that candidate would be: none other than the C.C.P.'s creator and honorary chairman, the former Senator, sometime editor, professor and poet, Eugene J. McCarthy...
...decades ago by Nevil Shute in his bestselling novel On the Beach. At the time, it seemed farfetched. Only three nations possessed atomic weapons. Now six nations have them, at least a couple of dozen other countries have the capability to develop them-and suddenly Shute's scenario seems frighteningly possible...
This dramatic scenario is no longer confined to the daydreams of imaginative exobiologists.* Last week technicians at TRW Inc. in Redondo Beach, Calif., were finishing two miniaturized laboratories that will be able to test Martian soil for evidence of life. Next August, in the climax to NASA'S $1 billion Project Viking, two unmanned spacecraft will be fired aloft from Cape Canaveral. After an eleven-month journey, the Viking ships will swing into orbit around Mars. Each will release a lander containing a life-seeking laboratory. After descending with the aid of parachute and braking rockets, the first sterilized...
...Goldwater as the man who ought to seek a meeting with the President to warn him of the tremendous odds against his acquittal. Said Scott: "We agreed that Barry should be our emissary to the President." It was a role long ago foreseen for Goldwater in any ultimate resignation scenario...
...first choice to succeed Spiro Agnew as his Vice President was not Gerald Ford but Connally. To contemplate the indictment of the Vice President, or even merely the suspicion of charges aired, in the same week that articles of impeachment were voted against the President is a scenario that almost shatters the mind. By the best accounts, Melvin Laird played a key role in persuading Nixon that Connally was too recently a Republican convert and too ambitious for the presidency to win Congress's approval as Vice President. From the vantage of hindsight, thanks, Mel. We didn...