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...mired in a dull, perfunctory campaign. Stumping upstate, the Democratic candidate arrived at Endicott (pop. 19,-000) too late in the afternoon to greet most of the workers leaving the town's large IBM plant. That night he wandered around shopping centers vainly trying to find hands to shake. Next day he showed up for a speech in the Chenango Valley town of Norwich (pop. 9,200), found fewer than 20 people waiting for him at a local restaurant. Returning to Manhattan, he showed up for a Herald Square speaking date 90 minutes after aides began touting his imminent...
...metaphysician, has seen before. He proclaims that lamb is less popular than beef because it is associated with "gentle innocence"; that rice is a favorite "feminine food" because in the cooking "it expands and swells." Dichter also asserts that gloves are sexy because taking them off to shake hands is an "act of undressing" which provides "skin contacts"; that shaving is a masochistic ritual associated with virility, and that therefore the most popular aftershave lotions "have to burn almost to the extent of hurting"; and that indigestion is a status symbol because it suggests high living and responsibility...
Denaburg estimates that, exclusive of traffic cases, more than 80 per cent of the defendants in Recorder's Court are Negroes ("that's because of the conditions they live in"), but he insists that 'they get more than a square shake." The meaning is clear: crimes involving only Negroes are simply not regarded as serious by law enforcement officials. One top prosecuting attorney has remarked, for example, that a Negro who kills another Negro is generally charged with man-slaughter, while a white man who kills another white under similar circumstances is usually tried for murder...
...degree, that is fine with bootleggers and their customers, for whom, job opportunities and liquor prices being what they are, any major shake-up in the police force would be for a while, at any rate, a sobering catastrophe. But even the bootleggers are dissatisfied with the present state of affairs; some are murmuring vaguely to each other of forming a united front and simply cutting off payments to the police. They want the police to ignore bootlegging, but without being paid...
...embassies, and USIA libraries are burned. Headlines are black and thunderous; U.S. allies look grave and offer to mediate; the United Nations is in an uproar. In the U.S., sandals and beards and protest signs turn up everywhere. The liberal press is in a frenzy. Congressmen and Senators shake their heads solemnly and charge the U.S. with attempting to police the world...