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Directing TIME'S 20 reporters was Chief of Correspondents Murray Gart. His principal command post was an advantageously placed row of seats and desks near the podium. Beside him sat his deputy and deskman extraordinary, Dick Duncan, amid a nexus of wires, phones and beepers with which he could dispatch one of TIME'S four floor reporters to cover a disturbance in the Ohio delegation or a fracas outside the hall...
While the balloting for McGovern dragged on, Gart left his command post to contact some of his "old sources" on the convention floor. In this "new" convention, old sources were not as common as they used to be, but Gart was able to return with a secret "short list" of vice-presidential candidates: U.A.W.'s Leonard Woodcock, Senators Abraham Ribicoff of Connecticut and Thomas Eagleton of Missouri. Promptly, a reporter and photographer were dispatched to cover each of these three vice-presidential possibilities. As a result, Correspondent John Stacks was at Ribicoffs side in his hotel suite when McGovern...
...Saigon command reported light fighting on the edges of Quang Tri, the provincial capital which fell to the North Vietnamese May 1. It said South Vietnamese paratroopers driving from the east had inched their way to within 200 to 300 yards of the Citadel, the 19th century fortress in the heart of the city...
Throaty Style. In 1947 the young contractor (he was then 28) entered Japan's second postwar election and won the first of his ten successive terms in the Diet. He began to command national attention at 39, when he was named Minister of Posts and Telecommunications, his first Cabinet job. Soon after his appointment, he consented during a radio interview to demonstrate his throaty singing style by crooning a ballad in praise of gambling, which is outlawed in Japan. The party's old guard gasped, the newspapers dubbed Tanaka "Minister Without IQ," but the performance drew high ratings...
...could attract the maenads to pursue him, but could not stop them from tearing him to gobbets; art, a magic key to the irrational, cannot always control the emotions it unlocks. Hence the idiocy of the comparisons that get drawn between Stones concerts and Nazi rallies. Hitler was in command of his audience; Jagger...