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With his pouty lips, upswept pompadour and downswept jowls, he bore scant resemblance to the lissome heroine of NBC's comedy I Dream of Jeannie. Yet sure enough, there was George Wallace in living color at Jeannie's usual time, dispensing his own brand of sugar-sweet demagoguery in his first nationwide TV appeal. For all the contrast, the substitution of George for Jeannie was bizarrely apt. For like the star of the show-a genie-Wallace is a specter that both major parties would prefer to see back in the bottle...
...Prague amateur photographers started clicking their shutters at the Russians. After Villiam Salgovič, an anti-Dubček conservative, rounded up 40 security agents to run errands for the Soviets, an underground station broadcast all of their license-plate numbers. A truck driver who recognized one plate bore down on the car and rammed it against a brick wall with his two-ton trailer...
...Gallup poll bore dismal tidings. Where Richard Nixon led Humphrey by a scant 2% before his nomination as the G.O.P. presidential candidate, last week he had opened up a huge 16% margin, with 45% to Hubert's 29%. Humphrey aides pointed out, correctly, that even Barry Goldwater's polled popularity spurted dramatically immediately after his nomination, from 21% to 36%. All the same, the findings gave Minnesota Senator Eugene McCarthy's supporters an opportunity to proclaim that the Vice President was "not electable...
Tribute to TV. If at various times the show was a bore, it was not the fault of television but of the politicians. In fact, it is a kind of tribute to television that it does indeed convey how a convention is-a place of ritualized oratory, stupefying boredom, enormous apathy. If television's men did not get all the smoke-filled-room secrets, they got more than any single delegate did. In fact, an astute spectator would have been well advised to carry with him a portable TV set. It would have told him more about what...
...much more work and stay on the trial calendar. Clients have more confidence in me, now that I'm available regularly. No one who is not a hemophiliac can imagine what a relief it is to be able to work on schedule." His wife Joan recently bore the Raatzes' second baby. Like the first, it was a boy. And by a Mendelian pattern of inheritance, a hemophiliac cannot transmit the disease...