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...clear, running account of the convention itself. Desperate for laughs or hoked-up drama, networks focused interminably on the "men from Mars," as Cronkite calls the antennaed Rover Boys who puffed from delegate to delegate accompanied by cameramen carrying 25-to-54-lb. packs of electronic gear. The floor reporters actually prolonged and inflated the squabbles over seating the Southern delegations. NBC and ABC got caught focusing only on Martian byplay at the moment of Lyndon Johnson's nomination by acclamation...
With the economy in high gear, a sweeping civil rights bill in the bag, and an incumbent in the White House, Democrats should have been able to assemble their 1964 platform for this week's convention with a paste pot. As it emerged, the platform was a bit sticky, glued together with boasts about Democratic accomplishments and pleasing promises of more pleasantries to come. But before the promises were put to paper, the Johnson Administration, with sledgehammer subtlety, pounded away at platform hearings with predictably partisan testimony from all the big tools in the Government...
Real Eight. A few strikes have been made by casual skindivers, but the real payoff generally goes to companies that can afford elaborate treasure-hunting equipment such as electronic metal-detection gear, air compressors, sand pumps and power boats. Real Eight, Inc., a group of Vero Beach-based underwater operators that has so far sunk an estimated $150,000 in the Atlantic, recently made its first major strike: the wreck of what was probably one of a group of Spanish ships that foundered in a hurricane...
...insular existence is projected in a documentary feature titled What's Happening!-The Beatles in the U.S.A. Made with near-perfect fidelity by Albert and David Maysles, a brother team of American independent film makers who shot it on the spot with a handheld camera and portable sound gear, this bristling, hilarious account of the sound and fury generated during a public-appearance tour was shown on British television, but has yet to be released for public showings in the U.S. Meanwhile, A Hard Day's Night fills the gap with Beatlesong, frothy fiction...
...time he got to San Francisco, Bill Scranton's machine was in full gear. In 48 rooms on three floors of the Mark Hopkins Hotel, scores of eager workers performed their appointed tasks-from drafting speeches to ordering cookie and fruit between-meals snacks for the candidate. A complex communications network had been in stalled-including a 15-circuit phone switchboard, and a special "hot line" system linking hotel headquarters to the Cow Palace convention floor and to two communications trailers parked outside. Code words were used in tele phone conversations to confuse possible eavesdroppers, and the whole headquarters...