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...more responsively and responsibly handled by cities or counties or states. Most liberals still feel that a strong Federal Government is essential when it comes to world issues, as well as education, jobs and housing, and doubt that local governments can be trusted to ensure a fair shake for all. Still, distrust of government and belief in decentralization is a big new force. Nixon and others have spotted it. How it can be used by the parties and the candidates, who will be hurt and who will be helped, is far from clear. But the phenomenon offers a somewhat heady...
...problem is acute for Hubert Humphrey, odds-on favorite for nomination. Try as he might, the Vice President so far has not been able to shake the Johnson legacy or stake out his own position. Speaking in Los Angeles' south central ghetto last week, Humphrey was greeted with such deafening boos and shouts of "Honky, go home!" that he was forced off the stage. Though aides claimed that hecklers had been hired for the occasion, the truth still was that no more than 300 or 400 Los Angeles Negroes even bothered to come in the first place...
...campus where strangers walking by each other rarely exchange greetings, blacks are conspicuous because of their gregariousness. George Curry, who attends Knoxville (Tenn.) College, said, " Wit blacks they go by, and shake your hand and ask, 'What's happening tonight, brother...
WHATEVER else may be said about George Wallace and his third-party presidential candidacy, the Alabamian has delivered on one cam paign promise before getting his first vote. "We're going to shake the eyeteeth of the liberals of both national parties," he pledged in Des Moines last week. By liberal, he means anything left of the far, far right, and he has already unsettled some political ivory in that broad area...
Hughes's tender offer to buy 2,000,000 shares in the TV-radio network and theater chain at $74.25 per share was made July 1 when they traded for $58.88. The bundle would have amounted to 39% of outstanding stock and would have presumably led to a shake-up of management and operations of the company, whose TV network lost $17 million last year. ABC management fought the takeover bid, asking for a court injunction and a hearing by the Federal Communications Commission...