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Four years ago, even the politicians agreed that convention coverage had become something of a bore. When it came right down to the wire, however, they found old habits hard to discard, including the absurdity of four seconding speeches even for favorite-son candidates. All the Republican National Committee had really done was to delay the proceedings until prime time and to limit the seconding speeches for candidates to five minutes. The net works found themselves reporting a spectacle whose script they were basically powerless to enliven. As NBC's John Chancellor noted in retrospect: "Conventions were structured...
...Aref, who took over in 1966 after his predecessor and brother Abdul Salem Aref died in a mysterious helicopter crash, the country suffered from so much corruption that the Premier, Lieut. General Taher Yahya, was widely known as "the Thief of Baghdad." A poor administrator and weak boss, Aref bore the additional stigma of last year's defeat in the Six-Day War with Israel. He offended many citizens by decreeing further delays in Iraq's decade-long "transition" from military rule to parliamentary democracy, seemed unable to get the oil-rich economy moving. Chief among those...
Pattern of Frankness. Little of what Rocky said was new. Some of it bore the stamp of Henry Kissinger, the international affairs scholar and Rockefeller adviser. What was surprising was that he should say anything so specific about Viet Nam at all. Yet it was a pattern of frankness that Rockefeller clearly intended to follow. As he talked privately with delegates, Rocky found face-to-face candor was making more friends than enemies...
...Pattison, 39, used to be a baseball fan-until last week, when he traveled all the way from Vancouver to Houston to attend the 39th annual All-Star game "because I wanted to see the best hitters in baseball." Pattison in stead saw "the biggest bore of my life": a game in which both teams, between them, collected only eight hits and struck out 20 times. The only score came in the first inning, when San Francisco's Willie Mays singled, went to second on a muffed pick-off attempt, to third on a wild pitch, and home...
...that, last week's Solidarity Day, the climactic event of the Poor People's Campaign, bore little resemblance to the famous March on Washington in August 1963. Though the turnout was an impressive 55,000, it did not even come close to the 200,000 of the earlier march. More important than size was spirit. The 1963 demonstration was suffused with the hope that the last vestiges of legal segregation would soon disappear. Most indeed did, but that did not prove enough; laws aside, the reality of discrimination and poverty remained. The 1968 rally was motivated by disillusionment...