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...Republicans are still racked by divisions and face a tough, intelligent opponent, Jimmy Carter, who has come out of rural Georgia to lead a revitalized Democratic Party. While the Democrats were flaunting their new faces, the Republicans at the convention almost symbolically paraded such figures of yesteryear as Alf Landon, 88, and Barry Goldwater, 67, the badly defeated presidential candidates of 1936 and 1964. (Another face from the past, Movie Star Gary Grant, 72, made a relentlessly cute appearance to introduce Betty Ford...
...successful gubernatorial race. In 1932 Farley steered Roosevelt's drive for the Democratic presidential nomination and his election victory over Herbert Hoover; armed with ample power and patronage as both national Democratic boss and Postmaster General, he masterminded an even bigger win for F.D.R. in 1936 against Alf Landon. After that, Old Pol Farley fell out with the patrician F.D.R. and his zealous New Dealer's, and in 1940 he quit his Cabinet and national party posts, suggesting that F.D.R.'s decision to run for an unprecedented third term had foreclosed his own ambitions for high elective...
...Even for readers of the funny pages, there is no escape from reminders of the gloomy economy. Blondie's henpecked husband, Dagwood Bumstead, beefs about inflation. In the prosaic adventures of Mary Worth, two characters are currently struggling with unemployment. Alf, a character in The Dropouts, recently suggested a complicated idea for solving the present financial problems. "Terrific! Why don't you send a note to the world's economists?" a colleague enthusiastically recommends. Says Alf, "Can't afford to-'til the price of paper comes down." One of the oldest comics, Little Orphan Annie...
...becomes boring, but it is a necessary chore. To assume, as many have, that Nixon is a diseased and disgraced man, incapable of a comeback, will allow him the time and tolerance to make such a comeback. If he succeeds--if in five years he is the Republicans' next Alf Landon, the nation's next Averill Harriman, the world's next U Thant--Watergate and all of its revelations and investigations will have accomplished little...
...about Gerald Ford. Senator Charles Percy of Illinois spoke of Ford's ability to work smoothly with Congress; Senator Alan Cranston, the California Democrat, noted Ford's ability "to reach out, to consult and to conciliate." From the Colorado Rockies where he was vacationing, former Kansas Governor Alf Landon, the Republican presidential candidate of 1936, watched Ford's performance and was impressed "with the promptness with which he is making his decisions; he's going about his job without hesitation or delay...