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...political position. It also provided training. Under cover of the Suez barrage, about 70 soldiers crossed the canal and staged an ambush, killing two Israeli soldiers. But the most intricate theory had it that Nasser had been put up to it by his Russian advisers as a warm-up for an attempt to clear the Suez by force. No country has felt the pinch of the Suez shutdown more than Russia, which must send its ships around Africa to Asia in order to keep Hanoi supplied, among other things. The Russians have a dredge in the Mediterranean, and could send...
...long. Seventeen different television shows a week begin with the shot-from-a-cannon entrance of Johnny Olson, the only professional warm-up man in TV. This is a gruesome but, by the laws of TV at least, a necessary specialty. Ten minutes or so before air time, Olson crouches backstage like a half-miler, waits until he feels the "right psychological moment," and then bolts out before the audience, shouting "Hey! Helloooo everybodeeee!" As the APPLAUSE sign flashes on and off, he bounds about like a cheerleader and cries: "Good morning, everybodeeee! Good morning! Say good morning, everybodeeee! [Audience...
After the entertainment, out steps George. He is generally introduced by Aide Dick Smith, one of about 40 traveling Wallace staffers, all of whom (except for Tom Turnipseed of South Carolina) are from Alabama. A weekly-newspaper editor from York, Smith gives a brief, effective warm-up talk, while Wallace girls, dressed in dark skirts and white blouses, pass up the aisles with yellow contribution buckets. When Smith and the girls are finished, Wallace marches up to the lectern...
...McLain kept moving so fast that Kane hardly had a chance to ask all the necessary questions. Kane found himself taking notes while chatting at the water fountain in the Tiger dugout, while chasing his man through hotel lobbies, in between sessions at a television studio and on the warm-up mound in the stadium bullpen. His biggest break came when the brakes locked on a plane that was bringing the Tiger star from Boston to New York. McLain fumed at the delay, but there he was-trapped in the cabin with Kane for one long hour, with nothing...
PRECONVENTION SPECIAL OF DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION (ABC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). This first convention warm-up session features commentaries by William F. Buckley Jr., Gore Vidal, Howard K. Smith and William H. Lawrence...