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...line party loyalists, Lyndon Johnson came out at his fightingest. Before a Democratic National Committee group in New York City, Johnson, red-faced and leaning forward as though to bite the microphone, waved his fist and slammed at Nixon as "a man who distorts the history of his time." For a change, Johnson seemed to be enjoying the battle and to believe, like Humphrey, that the party might survive this week...
...evening of March 5, 1968, was a big occasion at Cornell University Medical College on Manhattan's East Side. A world celebrity was appearing, and hundreds of medical students wanted to hear him. Scores of them rushed across the street for a quick bite at the dormitory snack bar, and many of them ordered hamburgers. In normal times, no matter how a burger is ordered at the snack bar, it always turns out rare. That night, under the sudden pressure of short-order business, the hamburgers were just about raw. And within two weeks, five of the students came...
...charitable toward the Republican Convention than the Democratic. He was surprised himself at his diminished hatred for Nixon. The man still suffered from slickness. "His ability to slide off the question and return with an answer is as implicit in the work of his jaws as the ability to bite a piece of meat." Yet, adds Mailer, adversity seems to have mellowed, even deepened him. "The new Nixon had finally acquired some of the dignity of the old athlete and the old con -he had taken punishment, he knew the detailed schedule of pain in a real loss, there...
...they are all but unbeatable on it. But the album still will not please listeners who lack a taste for musical graffiti. How could it, with songs like the slow, bluesy Stray Cat, addressed to a 15-year-old girl ("Bet your mama don't know you can bite like that")? Or the driving, syncopated Street Fighting Man ("Comes summer here and the time is right for fighting in the street, boy")? Coincidentally, Fighting Man was released as a single during last month's Democratic Convention and was promptly boycotted by most Chicago radio stations. Perhaps the best...
...Detroit Tigers showed that they haven't lost any of their bite as they roared back at the St. Louis Cardinals to win the second game of the World Series...