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...year-old fighter in his prime likely to stay out? "But everything I've done is unique," he argued. "I was advised in a unique manner" (by his trainer Janks Morton and his attorney Mike Trainer, who circumvented the venal promoters...
...hell-bent on spotting a Democratic trend. For Republicans, he said, "it certainly doesn't look good. No way to make it look good." White House Correspondent Lesley Stahl shared his view. Soon after 7 p.m. E.S.T., she announced flatly, "It is a Democratic year." After Reporter Bruce Morton miscalled Hiler's defeat, he suggested that Democrats could win "40 or 50 seats" in the House...
...celebrate the resumption (after 41 years) of construction on the world's largest Gothic cathedral, St. John the Divine, that soaring seraph of acrobats Philippe Petit, 33, tiptoed to the church across a 250-ft. wire slung 15 stories above Manhattan. The inspiration, notes Dean James Parks Morton, came from an 18th century painting by Guardi depicting circus performers outside San Marco in Venice. Having an aerialist perform, says Morton, "is proof of faith, like nothing else." And he has that on the loftiest authority...
...Johnson points out, "USA Today's success will be determined by a very tough public and by advertisers looking for the best possible increase in sales." Business Analyst R. Joseph Fuchs of Kidder, Peabody and Co. Inc. rates USA Today's chances as "better than even." John Morton of Lynch, Jones and Ryan notes that Gannett is at worst taking a gamble in which potential rewards greatly exceed risks: "This is not an enormous investment, it is like buying a moderate-size newspaper, and it promises an enormous return...
DIED. Thruston Morton, 74, two-term U.S. Senator (1957-69) and Republican National Chairman during the 1960 campaign; of undisclosed causes; in Louisville, Ky. A seventh-generation Kentuckian, the Yale-educated millionaire was a leader of the G.O.P.'s liberal wing and an advocate of bold U.S. leadership in world affairs...