I know of many examples of small samples of opinion contrary to
the general view from which correct conclusions can be drawn. In
my own case, I think back on a number of individual encounters in
the Soviet Union over the years whose significance I refused to
believe, because I did not want to think that that society was
fundamentally on the wrong track.
William Mandel
Jeffrey Blankfort wrote:
>
> I went to the town of Beallesville,
> Ohio, (Pop. 500) in May, 1969, to interview the parents of five boys who
> had been killed in Vietnam, for Ramparts Magazine. The parents spoke of
> the letters they had received from their sons before the notices of
> their deaths, in which the sentiments of doubt about the war and
> depression predominated. While this is a small sample from which to
> reach a conclusion, I think it is safe one
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