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...Czechoslovak party. Czechoslovaks joyously seized on his return to Prague as evidence that they had somehow prevailed in their improbable contest of national determination against Soviet force. That belief was buttressed by the fact that during the hours before Dubček's arrival, Soviet armor withdrew from the central part of Czechoslovak cities...
McCarthy's final round of campaigning was his most successful yet. Iowa's Governor Harold Hughes withdrew his favorite-son candidacy and seemed on the brink of endorsing McCarthy. California Democratic Boss Jesse Unruh, whose delegation owns 174 votes, appeared likely to back him. Unruh hopes to run for Governor in 1970 and needs to win friends in the California party's liberal wing. McCarthy was also encouraged because virtually none of the delegates previously pledged to Robert Kennedy moved to back McGovern, who pinned his hopes on rallying the R.F.K. dissidents...
...support in his pre-convention campaign. Of the 16 states' 745 convention votes, Humphrey will probably get more than 600 of 1,312 needed for nomination. His new-found favor with Southern Democrats, after years of being disliked and distrusted by them, has two major reasons. After Johnson withdrew from the race, Humphrey seemed the most trustworthy and stable of the possible candidates, particularly in comparison with Robert Kennedy, who was feared and hated in the South. Also, the Democratic leadership in most Southern states has grown more moderate, partly because of the increasing Negro vote and partly because...
Mississippi's state bar, for example, withdrew a resolution welcoming out-of-state lawyers. In Alabama the threat of prosecution for practicing without a state license has kept visiting civil rights lawyers away for more than a year...
After the Nazis took over Austria in 1938, Webern's works were banned as "cultural bolshevism" and his activities were severely restricted. He withdrew more and more completely into mystical seclusion, poring over volumes of poetry and developing a passionate interest in that plant life around his suburban Vienna home. His calm perseverance as a composer in the face of ridicule and neglect gave him a saintly aura. To see him touch a single note on the piano, said Swiss Conductor Ernest Ansermet, was to see a man in an act of devotion...