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...party's great fear is that Mondale will leave the convention not only sweating but bleeding. His aides had hoped to begin the healing process after sweeping the last batch of primaries. At week's end state party leaders met in San Francisco. They hammered out convention logistics but mended no fences. "If Mondale had won all four primaries, this meeting would have been the start of the call for unity," said Georgia Party Chairman Bert Lance. "I guess unity has been delayed for a while." The Mondale camp had hoped the convention would be a four...
...inexorable march. Hart won last week in Vermont (46% to 33%) and Utah (51% to 20%), but Mondale holds a 1,135-to-605 lead in delegates; 1,967 are needed for the nomination. Hart's hard-line tactics are expected to continue through the next batch of primaries and caucuses, culminating with votes in Texas and Louisiana on May 5 and Ohio, Indiana, Maryland and North Carolina on May 8. "Perhaps we cannot expect every President to be a profile in courage," Hart said last week in Austin. "But, at the least, we cannot accept a President...
...work in the final assembly stage, where the tasks are more complicated. Canon's philosophy exhorts workers to avoid the "nine wastes," which include such sins as excess inventory or defects of any kind. The results are nearly picture perfect. Factory Boss Toshio Endo boasts that in a batch of 470,000 lens mounts produced at the plant over the past three months, only two were defective...
Freshman defenseman Batch Cutone (3-7-10) has a potent slapshot, and senior wing Dave Connors (3-7-10) is a good playmaker...
...announcing the event to the press an ample attendance of newshawks and cameramen as well as a batch of clergymen and investigators of Senator La Follette's civil liberties committee was insured. At the appointed time, Organizer Richard Truman Frankensteen, head of the U.A.W. Ford drive, accompanied by his lieutenant, Walter Reuther, appeared. Leader Frankensteen, a husky 30 and onetime football player (University of Dayton), led the way up a long flight of stairs to the overpass to supervise the handbills' issuance. He was smiling for photographers as a group of Ford men approached. Someone shouted...