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...Like Meany, they have spent almost four years fighting Nixonomics; unlike Meany, they see no reason to let up on the President now. What has Nixon done to deserve it? In their view, his policies have clamped down on wages, boosted unemployment, sent capital fleeing abroad and caused the virtual disappearance of the electronics industry-much to the dismay of the powerful machinists union. Yet, by staying neutral, Meany and his allies in the steelworkers union are helping Nixon get reelected; some of the building trades unions, in fact, are expected to endorse the President. The dissident union chieftains...
...Russians also won the gold and bronze medals in the women's all-round individual. That came as no surprise; the Soviets had dominated women's gymnastic events since they began Olympic competition. Winner of the individual was Ludmilla Tourischeva, 19, a solemn, dark-haired beauty who enjoys virtual prima-ballerina status in the Soviet Union. Executing such complicated maneuvers as 360° swings and somersaults underneath the uneven bars, Tourischeva outpointed the D.D.R.'s Janz and Teammate Tamara Lazakovich...
...billed as her first novel with an American setting, even the characters seem to blur into each other. Talbot Edelman, M.D., is a self-acclaimed student of death whose inquiries include mutilating experiments on his dog Sally. A lyric-writing old gent named Turnlung is also an expert-a virtual memory bank of death and that other equable state, prenatal life. Both Talbot, the death scientist, and Turnlung, the death artist, develop a need and deep affection for one another. Both are in training for death, and it seems fair to construe that their love is the main event...
...NOISIEST protests--and by far the most prolonged--was a year-long attack by Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) on Psychology Professor Richard J. Herrnstein. Herrnstein--previously a virtual unknown on the campus outside of his specialty--was catapulted to public attention in September, 1971, when SDS made him the target of their campaign against racism after he published an article on intelligence in The Atlantic Monthly...
...aura of a closed corporation. Delegates are sometimes assessed as much as $1,000 simply for the privilege of a seat on the convention floor. For that reason alone, few young, black or poor delegates have ever attended Republican Conventions. In addition, some states hold their caucuses in virtual secrecy, while in others delegates choose their own alternates, so that husband-wife and father-son delegate pairings are not uncommon...