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Events during the rest of the day began to take care of Agnew's anonymity. Irate over the aura of a shabby deal that surrounded his selection and disturbed by some of his recent criticism of Negro activists, leaders in a number of delegations talked revolt. As usual, however, the liberals were disorganized. By the time the final night's session convened to name a vice-presidential candidate and hear both nominees' acceptance speeches, a coalition had been assembled to second Agnew's nomination: Lindsay, Percy, Tower and California's William Knowland. They covered all factions of the party...
...security, said that police were justified in shooting looters if they failed to obey commands to halt, assailed President Johnson for allowing the Poor People's Campaign to camp on federal land. He attacked the Kerner Commission for abetting rioting by talking of white racism. There is "an aura of belief," he said shortly before the convention, "that rioting is the inalienable right of the ghetto resident. If one wants to pinpoint the cause of riots, it would be this permissive climate and the misguided compassion of public opinion." He added: "It is not evil conditions that cause riots...
Polish avant-gardist. Grotowski argues that theater exists to shatter taboos that separate man from himself. The relentless iconoclasm of the age has pretty much destroyed religious, political and social taboos. According to Grotowski, only the human body retains an aura of sanctity that lends itself to exposure, shock and outrage...
...Cape Town to consider what they had done, what they should do, and how they could do better. Why Cape Town? Explained Brooklyn's Dr. Adrian Kantrowitz: "Chris Barnard has been doing it better than all of us-that's why we are here." Barnard's aura was rivaled by the authority of Houston's Dr. Denton Cooley, who has three surviving patients, including one who is going back to work...
Something Drastic. At the meeting, the company credibility gap was hardly improved when Chairman Melvin W. Alldredge insisted that the absent Jay had retired merely "because of personal reasons." With "such an aura of mystery," complained one disbelieving stockholder, "it must have been something fairly drastic." There were some rather drastic statistics to consider. During A. &P.'s first 1968 quarter, which closed just seven days before Jay exited, profits plummeted 21 % below the 1967 first quarter. Moreover, Alldredge conceded, there was no sign of "any significant change" ahead...