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...from 9 p.m.). ABC promises a cast of 1,000, not counting Univac, headed by John Daly. CBS counters with the new IBM 7090 and its sidekick RAMAC 305 to tally ballots "within thousandths of a second," will also use humans, with Walter Cronkite as anchor man. NBC boasts an RCA 501 and a similar 1,000-man task force, commanded by Chet Huntley and David Brinkley, needless...
...Small Anchor. Skeptics suggest that Kennedy drew the mantle of New Deal-Fair Deal liberalism around him because he sensed that liberalism offered the only way for a Democrat to win back labor and the minorities from Dwight Eisenhower, and with them the powerful Northern cities. Whether by design or scruple, Kennedy indeed did change his thinking in several areas: his position on farm subsidies switched from Benson's flexible supports to down-the-line 90% of parity. His biographer, James MacGregor Burns, calls him a genuine liberal who "had the helm fixed toward port but . . . was still dragging...
...great geniuses of our time, and it would be deplorable that his ineffable abilities were so little known if it weren't that the beauty of his work is increased by one's realization of its total obscurity. Some may recall that Gorey designs covers for Anchor Books, but his actual magnificence is only to be found in such master-works as the Object Lesson, the Doubtful Guest, and the incomparable Listing Attic, which is now out of print. Anyone who aspires to any sort of real gentility needs must purchase First Person, if only for the Gorey pictures...
...Anchor Aweigh. On Nixon's suggestion, Rockefeller issued the statement setting forth their agreement on basic policies, and Rocky was jubilant. Arriving in the convention city of Chicago, he triumphantly waved a copy of the statement...
...victory on Rockefeller's face guaranteed that Rocky would endorse the party's platform and campaign for the party's ticket, helping Nixon's chances of carrying New York, with its hefty 45 electoral votes. And by working out a truce with Rockefeller, Nixon had tugged loose his restraining anchor in the Eisenhower Administration; barred by his position as Vice President from speaking out freely on issues, he had let Nelson Rockefeller speak...