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...jealousy or pure inattention, U.S. Presidents have seldom used or even properly broken in their Vice Presidents. John Nance Garner, who served from 1933 to 1941 under Franklin Roosevelt, described the job as "a spare tire on the automobile of Government." Almost every modern President promised that he would upgrade the vice presidency and exploit fully the talents of the man who occupied the post. None succeeded...
POLITICAL INTEREST AND ACTIVISM, two related indicators, cover the people who have the most direct effect on the outcome of elections. Those who ranked high in the "interest" indicator follow political developments regularly through television, radio and print, seldom miss watching a televised presidential address or press conference, like to discuss politics, and often are asked by other people for advice on politics...
...free press." In his first official act, the President announced the appointment of Jerald F. terHorst, 52, a popular old hand in the White House press corps, as his press secretary. After fencing for 5½ years with an often surly Ronald Ziegler and his agreeable but seldom more informative deputy, Gerald Warren, many reporters have greeted terHorst's appointment with undisguised pleasure. "To Ziegler, information was something to be packaged and merchandized for his client," says Lisagor. "The feeling is that terHorst will treat information as an objective commodity." To Peter Kumpa, Washington bureau chief of the Baltimore...
...comments are forwarded to the offending eateries as well, because restaurant owners seldom get the benefit of the constructive criticism on the cards that T.I. members lay on the table. Waiters and waitresses surreptitiously pocket the telltale yellow complaints even faster than they snap up tips...
...world of parapsychology has more than its share of frauds, charlatans and opportunists. But even those critics who were openly skeptical about the phenomena reported by the Institute for Parapsychology in Durham, N.C., seldom questioned the sincerity or integrity of Dr. Joseph B. Rhine, the institute's founder, or his staff. Last week a shaken Rhine was preparing to acknowledge publicly a scandal that has already rocked the entire psychic establishment...