Betty Houchin Winfield, in Journalism Quarterly (Winter 1987), School of Journalism, Univ. of S.C., 1621 College St., Columbia, S.C. 29208.
Sixty years ago, most U.S. journalists preferred to report the "facts" with- out explanation. They focused on what, where, and when.
But that changed during the 1930s. Those years of swift change, pro- pelled the Depression and the New Deal, brought "interpretative" jour- nalism-dealing with why and how-into fashion. Time (est. 1923) and...
Paul West, in Governing (Jan. 1988), 1414 22nd St. N.W., Washington, D.C. 20037.
Many U.S. presidential candidates-and presidents-have been state gov- ernors. West, a Baltimore Sun correspondent, notes that many sitting governors, including Thomas E. Dewey, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Nelson Rockefeller, "attempted to use their states as laboratories in gearing up to run for national office, with obviously mixed results." Our last two presi- dents have been former governors; Democrat Jimmy...
Congress to the states in 1972, the amendment had been approved 33 state legislatures by 1974. Progress was slow thereafter. The ERA finally died on June 30, 1982, three states short of the 38 needed for ratification.
Bolce, De Maio, and Muzzio, all political scientists at Baruch College, fmd that public support for the ERA fell steadily during the decade that it was considered for ratification by the states.
Surveys by the Center for Political Studies show that 73 percent of the public supported...
1980, the majority supporting ERA had "vanished entirely." After the federal amendment died, many states that ratdied the ERA in the early 1970s-such as New York and Wisconsin-later reflected this collapse of popular support rejecting state Ems of their own. Public opinion in the states that rejected ERA, the authors conclude, "seems unlikely to shift in favor of the amendment in the near future."
"Ike and Hu-oshima: Did He Oppose It?" by Bar-
Ike the D@lomat ton...
Anthony Samp-son, in Regardie's (Dec. 1987), 1010 Wisconsin Ave. N.W., Ste. 600, Washington, D.C. 20007.
Many American politicians argue that U.S. corporations should sell off their South African subsidiaries. "Our country is implicated in the terrible system that blights South Africa," says Senator Edward Kennedy (D.-Mass.). "Our corporations have benefited from the apartheid economy."
Sampson, British author of The Seven Sisters and The Changing Anatomy of Britain, argues...
Dick Armey, in Policy
se Review (Winter 1988), Heritage Foundation,
214 Massachusetts Ave. N.E., Washington, D.C.
20002.
Located in an inhospitable comer of northern Maine, Loring Air Force Base averages 105 inches of snow a year. It was built during the late 1940s to ensure that limited-range B-47 bombers could reach the Soviet Union from a base in the continental United States. As B-47s were re- placed with longer range B-52 and B-1 bombers, Loring's far-northem site was no longer a strategic...
Dick Armey, in Policy
se Review (Winter 1988), Heritage Foundation,
214 Massachusetts Ave. N.E., Washington, D.C.
20002.
Located in an inhospitable comer of northern Maine, Loring Air Force Base averages 105 inches of snow a year. It was built during the late 1940s to ensure that limited-range B-47 bombers could reach the Soviet Union from a base in the continental United States. As B-47s were re- placed with longer range B-52 and B-1 bombers, Loring's far-northem site was no longer a strategic...
David Clinton, in
TocqueviUe Today The Washington Quarterly (Winter 1988), 55
Hayward st.,cambridge, Mass. 02142.
In Democracy in America (1835-40), French political philosopher Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859) argued that U.S. democracy could not pursue long-term foreign policy interests. "A democracy," Tocqueville wrote, "finds it difficult to. ..fix on some plan and carry it through with deter- mination." Any president, trying to distinguish himself from his predeces-...
Richard J. Herrn-
stein and James E. Mazur, in The Sciences
(Nov.-Dec. 19871, New York Academy of Sci-
ences, 2 East 63rd St., New York, N.Y. 10021.
"The natural effort of every individual to better his own condition. . . is so powerful a principle," wrote Adam Smith in 1776, "that it is alone.. .capable of carrying on the society to wealth and prosperity." Economists still hew to this theory of "utility maximization," which is applied not only to financial decisions...
Richard J. Herrn-
stein and James E. Mazur, in The Sciences
(Nov.-Dec. 19871, New York Academy of Sci-
ences, 2 East 63rd St., New York, N.Y. 10021.
"The natural effort of every individual to better his own condition. . . is so powerful a principle," wrote Adam Smith in 1776, "that it is alone.. .capable of carrying on the society to wealth and prosperity." Economists still hew to this theory of "utility maximization," which is applied not only to financial decisions...