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...from his boyhood home of Mitchell, S. Dak. Mitchell High School's summer baking class prepared an enormous birthday cake in the shape of the White House. Bob Verschoor, McGovern's finance chairman for each of his congressional campaigns, presented the candidate with 50 $50 bills-his harvest from a $50 bet he placed with Las Vegas Odds-maker Jimmy the Greek when the odds against McGovern's getting the Democratic nomination were reckoned...
...McGovern. For the candidate, it was the end of a long, improbable road, and he savored the moment. "My nomination," he said, "is all the more precious in that it is a gift of the most open political process in all of our political history. It is the sweet harvest of the work of tens of thousands of tireless volunteers, young and old alike ... As Yeats put it, Think where man's glory most begins and ends/ And say my glory
Cesar Chavez, 45, veteran and victor of many a bitter battle for his United Farm Workers, was a casualty of his latest struggle-a 20-day fast to protest a new Arizona law that forbids secondary boycotts and strikes by farm workers at harvest time. Drawn and wasted after losing 30 Ibs. Chavez was wheeled to an ambulance through the 90° heat of Phoenix, feebly moving his head to avoid the blasting sun. Cesar's condition was serious, said his doctor. Meanwhile, defiant Arizona laborers began leaving the harvest-ready fields, shouting "Viva Chavez...
There were more curiosities to come: Spiritual Music from New England tune books of the late 18th century, richly melancholy Negro spirituals, then a leap to Charles Ives' quirky but equally spiritual Three Harvest Home Chorales-still sounding sonorously dissonant and as futuristic as ever...
...another kind of withering fire was directed at the U.S. Declared New York Mayor John Lindsay: "The insane attack upon George Wallace is yet another terrible and inevitable example of the violence of our nation. From the needless neglect of our most pressing national needs, we have reaped a harvest of division, despair and death." In his New York Times column, Tom Wicker searched for an explanation of the assassinations among "violent western movies, the organized violence of professional football, the endless lines outside theaters showing The Godfather" The blasts from overseas were even more extravagant than usual. Said Milan...