70 Year Magazine Archive

For the Record

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■ Here and there on the election scene: Party headquarters in Washington indicate Republicans outraised and outspent Democrats nearly ten to one. . . . Secret Service agents, angry at sly reports that the San Jose stoning of President Nixon was a put-on, trotted out the car Mr. Nixon had been riding in, showed reporters at least ten places where rocks had dented it. . . . Busy as a bee, in preNovember period, Sargent Shriver who campaigned for 97 Democratic candidates in 27 states—piling up political IOUs should he decide to run for national office two years hence. . . . Words come true. Sen. Javits’ statement two weeks before election that if Spiro Agnew’s standards prevail, “Republicans in this state will have to nominate candidates satisfactory to the Conservative Party.” (They have, and they will.) . . . Crack of the night, Lt. Gov. Malcolm Wilson, when it became clear that for the fourth time he and Rockefeller had been elected: ‘I’ve been No. 2 longer than Avis.” . . . WCBS, the morning after, commenting, “John Lindsay, having endorsed Goldberg and Goodell [both losers], has flown off to London for a short visit.” . . . Relieved, some Southern dj’s to be able to play the new Nashville hit: “Spiro, Our Hero, We Love You Down South.” They had held back for fear Democrats would demand equal time, or so they say.

■ First things first: Trustees of Johns Hopkins University have voted to restore on-campus military recruiting to avert possible loss of much-needed $2.8 million in defense contracts. . . . Parade Magazine reports three hundred colleges still in search of presidents; says further that average tenure of college presidents has slipped from 7.4 years in 1960 to 5.9 years in 1970. . . . What do you know: Conservatives, in wildly unexpected upset, took nine of 35 seats in Princeton’s Undergraduate Assembly which means, says UGA President Jerome Davis (a lib), that “we are planning to push through a proposal for student referendums which could override any UGA action.” . . . Most recent U.S. Office of Education estimate is that more than a quarter of the American people—over 58 million—are now in school.

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