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...first new alignment of political power in the U.S. since the New Deal. The campaign to follow looms almost as anticlimax, an exercise in the forms of democracy, though it will be the most lavishly financed and highly organized in Republican history. Yet it should also pose the sharpest choice on basic issues of any modern U.S. election. No matter; in the euphoria of the convention, the Republicans are acting as if the voting were already over. Four years ahead of time, conservatives are maneuvering to put their ideological favorite, Spiro Agnew, at the top of the ticket when Nixon...
...NIXON DEMOCRATS. Conservative Democrats will pose a crucial problem for McGovern if he becomes the party's nominee. Like their counterparts in the rival party, they tend to view his stands on the war and some domestic problems as extreme. They make their sharpest break with the Senator on Viet Nam, fearing a settlement that would amount to a defeat for the U.S., abandonment of the South Vietnamese or the sacrifice of American prisoners of war. They criticize his proposed cut in the defense budget as jeopardizing the nation's safety and reject his welfare reform program...
Medical insurers have received some of Denenberg's sharpest thrusts. He has denied rate increases to health insurers unless they submit proposals for pressuring hospitals into cutting their costs. To prove that he meant business, he rejected a $73 million rate increase from the state's Blue Cross group health insurance system and ordered its directors to renegotiate Blue Cross contracts with some 90 hospitals. The new contracts must include 34 cost-control guidelines that he proposed. For example, hospitals now have to buy generic drugs instead of more expensive name-brand drugs. In Blue Cross...
...American Hogarth, a moralist with a blown mind. The gallery he has created in underground comic books-from the gnomic sage Mr. Natural, the Priapus of the Midwest, through such creatures as Angelfood McSpade to that morsel of 13-year-old jailbait, Honeybunch Kaminski-constitutes Head City's sharpest and funniest view of American life. And perhaps the most pornographic. His fantasy unchecked by the strictures of mass circulation, Crumb gave back to cartooning the scatological vigor and erotic exuberance it had during the Regency, and then some...
...black paint that the world's most industrialized nation can provide. Each coat has been applied personally and diligently over a three-month period by the area's master car painter, Junior himself, of Junior's House of Paints in Lynwood. "This has gotta be the sharpest '58 Speedster you've ever seen," Wayne whispers reverently. "Look inside, those are Bigelow carpets on the floor . . . Ron had the whole interior ripped out and redone. He paid twenty-eight hundred for the car, put another four thousand in it." The door hinges are lacquered as shiny...