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Salt-water-taffy stores, sandwich parlors, auction rooms, fortunetellers' lairs, hotel lobbies-all were so jammed last week that Convention Hall seemed almost empty by contrast. Yet Atlantic City swallowed the 45,000 Democratic delegates like a whale mouthing a minnow. "Why," brag the locals, "the A.F.L.-C.I.O. convention here was twice...
...Shriners themselves, their fezzes askew and damp with humidity, their throats hoarse from laughter, by the end of last week they were plumb out of invisible thread as well. But all that was small fish compared to the whale of a time they...
...19th century author Alexander Smith didn't say it quite right when he wrote, "It is not of so much consequence what you say, as how you say it." Shifting the emphasis, we believe that what you say is important but how you say it makes a whale of a difference. Some examples from this week's TIME...
...National Guard Armory. "It is open to any member of any political group who wants to contribute $100 to the Democratic Party in November." For their money, some 6,000 Democrats saw a two-hour show in which Comic Milt Kamen tastelessly joked about the mating habits of the whale, Gregory Peck quipped that this is the year of the "Republican write-in" and the "Democratic shoo-in," Dancer Mitzi Gaynor peered down her middy blouse and asked: "Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? Tricky Dick Nixon knows...
...Indianapolis children's zoo contains a Japanese garden, with pagoda, pool and bridge, in which a collection of Japanese wildlife run free; a miniature train tours the grounds behind a replica of an 1863 locomotive; a walk-in whale has an aquarium in his stomach; there is an underwater glass panel for viewing submarine life and an underground panel to watch burrowing animals at work. An "elephant-rama" houses a baby elephant named Tumthong, bought with the nickels and dimes of 100,000 Indianapolis and Marion County schoolchildren. And of course there is a chicken hatchery-a staple...