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...Call for Brink's. The U.S. track team has no fewer than ten world record holders, most of whom are naturally favored to capture first place in their specialties. Lee Evans, a whippet-like San Jose State College senior, owns the 400-meter record of 44 sec., and is expected to both win that event and lead a victorious U.S. 1,600-meter relay team. After failing to qualify for the U.S. Olympic squad in the 800-meter run, Kansas' Jim Ryun finally made it in the 1,500 meters, for which he holds the record. Concentrating...
McCarthy's final round of campaigning was his most successful yet. Iowa's Governor Harold Hughes withdrew his favorite-son candidacy and seemed on the brink of endorsing McCarthy. California Democratic Boss Jesse Unruh, whose delegation owns 174 votes, appeared likely to back him. Unruh hopes to run for Governor in 1970 and needs to win friends in the California party's liberal wing. McCarthy was also encouraged because virtually none of the delegates previously pledged to Robert Kennedy moved to back McGovern, who pinned his hopes on rallying the R.F.K. dissidents...
...Every rational creature, finding itself on the brink of disaster, first tries to get away from the brink, and only then does it think about the satisfaction of other needs," writes Sakharov. Beyond the brink, of course, is nuclear war, and Sakharov speaks so authoritatively on the destructive power of nuclear weaponry, on its low-cost production and "the practical impossibility of preventing a massive rocket attack" that U.S. analysts are certain that he has engaged in military research. Present foreign policy in both Washington and the Kremlin, he says, is aimed "at maximum improvement of one's position...
...Paris' Left Bank riots. Much of what the Gaullists said and showed was true enough. France had indeed been on the verge of a breakdown, and if De Gaulle had stepped aside instead of asserting his authority in late May, the country might well have slipped over the brink into civil war. The warnings about more impending disorders struck a responsive chord in the French character...
Economic Effects. In sharp contrast to the disorders that brought the country to the brink of civil war, France was relatively 'quiet on election eve. Nearly all the 8,000,000 strikers were back at work, and the Sorbonne was calm again after Paris police dislodged the occupying young revolutionaries. Even so, France felt the severe economic consequences of the disorders. Rising food costs have already canceled out much of the 12% to 14% wage hikes that the strikers won. A drastic fall-off in tourism (some hotels report bookings down 50%) means more economic squeezes ahead...