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From the north wall of the Cow Palace jutted a $250,000 broadcast booth, newly completed for three TV networks. In the south wing, office cubicles for radio, newspaper and magazine reporters took shape. Telephone men installed 36,000 miles of wire, 3,000 phones. Overhead, a 40-ft.-by-100-ft. banner swung into place, bearing a likeness of Lincoln and the legend "Of the people, by the people, and for the people...
...Press. Part of this tendency to be counted in the polling booth rather than in the polls could be attributed to the attitude of the press. Most major California newspapers opposed Goldwater, including the staunchly Republican Los Angeles Times, which campaigned against him on Page One. Nearly all of the scores of reporters visiting California for the campaign thought that Rockefeller would win, wrote endlessly of the élan in his camp and of the pall of gloom hanging over the Goldwater forces. Some of this stemmed from the personal political predilections of many of the newsmen...
...cleaver at his neck and snarled, "Are you black or white?" Dauenheimer said, "I'm white." The Negro shouted, "I'm just going to cut your head off." But when Dauenheimer stopped the train, the hoodlums jumped off. When they tried to break into a change booth, they were arrested and jailed by subway police...
...spiting themselves. Money is not intrinsically either representative or progressive. If capital is to be used consciously to promote social change, the powers which control capital cannot be left to determine the direction of that change. Presumably civil rights groups would rather have their fate decided in the voting booth than at the Stock Exchange. They should be happy that business has remained as open as it has to political leadership in racial matters. The impersonality of finance capital should not be discarded lightly in favor of a more socially-oriented economic system. Perhaps we should let sleeping moneybags...
...Perhaps we can say that in Booth, in Leon Czolgosz who shot McKinley, and in Oswald we have three men who were very much alike in basic personality defects. We must assume that they did not expect to change the basic political philosophy of the country. There must have been other motives. Two interlocking concepts seem possible: 1) that they were seeking immortality, and 2) that they were destroying the symbol of the highest authority. Their victim was a symbol of their general basic anger against the social order...