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@ When pressed for a comment at New York’s Loyalty Day parade, which followed by two weeks the Spring Mobilization for Peace gala, New York’s Mayor John Lindsay came forth with: ‘Today we dedicate our thinking to the Constitution, and to the Bill of Rights, the right of all our citizens to speak freely,’ thereby signifying that Mayor Lindsay believes the Right to be Loyal is at least as important as the Right not to be, which is the best off Loyalty has been in New York City for quite a while now.

@ Bobby Kennedy may not have the youth bag all sewn up: in a recent survey of American college students, he ran behind George Romney when respondents were allowed to pick the best man from the whole field. When faced with either-or choices between two possible Presidential candidates, the students picked Nixon over Johnson, Romney over Johnson, Romney over Kennedy and Percy over Kennedy. Johnson was found to be losing support among liberals and ‘independents’ and gaining none from students who classify themselves as Republicans or conservatives. Other findings of the survey, conducted by the Gilbert Marketing Group: 77 per cent feel that politicians have ‘some integrity’ but usually go along with pressure groups; per cent think politicians are motivated by ‘opportunism’ and per cent more call it ‘pragmatism,’ yet 81 per cent believe that ‘the man with no principles at all’ is not best equipped to succeed in politics.

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@ When pressed for a comment at New York’s Loyalty Day parade, which followed by two weeks the Spring Mobilization for Peace gala, New York’s Mayor John Lindsay came forth with: ‘Today we dedicate our thinking to the Constitution, and to the Bill of Rights, the right of all our citizens to speak freely,’ thereby signifying that Mayor Lindsay believes the Right to be Loyal is at least as important as the Right not to be, which is the best off Loyalty has been in New York City for quite a while now.

@ Bobby Kennedy may not have the youth bag all sewn up: in a recent survey of American college students, he ran behind George Romney when respondents were allowed to pick the best man from the whole field. When faced with either-or choices between two possible Presidential candidates, the students picked Nixon over Johnson, Romney over Johnson, Romney over Kennedy and Percy over Kennedy. Johnson was found to be losing support among liberals and ‘independents’ and gaining none from students who classify themselves as Republicans or conservatives. Other findings of the survey, conducted by the Gilbert Marketing Group: 77 per cent feel that politicians have ‘some integrity’ but usually go along with pressure groups; per cent think politicians are motivated by ‘opportunism’ and per cent more call it ‘pragmatism,’ yet 81 per cent believe that ‘the man with no principles at all’ is not best equipped to succeed in politics.