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...when the people who never watch during the winter get a second chance to not watch and the people who were glued to the tube all season discover that most of what they saw isn't worth a second look. A few benefit, however: fans who missed a segment of their favorite series the night the house burned down, virtuous husbands stuck in the city while their wives and children are vacationing at the beach, baseball addicts too bemused by beer to switch off when the game is over, and other misfits...
President Johnson took note of this unease. "There is among our people a deep discontent," he told a group of educators in the White House Rose Garden. "It is not the discontent of a single segment-or a single section. It reaches through the whole of our society. The most prosperous, the best housed, the best fed, the best read, the most intelligent and the most secure generation in our history-or all history -is discontent. Why?" Perhaps, mused the President, it is because "we have not put our capacities to work. Our cities show it. Our schools show...
Faster than Sales. The first-half reports that came flooding in last week broke scores of records, and nearly every segment of the economy contributed its share. As has come to be almost expected, giant General Motors led the field by announcing, for the third quarter in a row, the highest sales and earnings of any company in history. The impressive total: first half sales of $9.8 billion, profits of $1.1 billion. Ford and Chrysler also reported alltime high earnings for the half...
Next Step. As for all the talk that Goldwater represents only a small segment of the Republican spectrum, that he would be the nominee of "a minority within a minority," Barry had his own facts and figures to point at. After all, the overwhelming delegate strength that he brought to San Francisco came from all sections of the U.S., and could by no means be narrowly categorized as a mere handful of "extremists...
...presidential preference, and the names of friends or associates who might put pro-Scranton pressure on the delegates. So precious were these files that Scranton's men had divided them into six sec tions for the trip from Harrisburg to San Francisco, packed a guard along with each segment on a different train or plane so no single railroad wreck or air crash could destroy the whole package...