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...have the connection and the complexion to get the protection," quoth Ah before surrendering the stage to a four-hour musical downpour that starred Bob Dylan, sounding like the old adenoidal prince of protest when he delivered his new song, Hurricane. Also on hand: Joan Baez, Joni Mitchell, Ronee Blakley and Roberta Flack. Sixty miles away in the Clinton, N.J., Correctional Institution, Carter listened to the concert by telephone-and continued to wait for the Governor to act on his appeal for a retrial...
...group" is a comfortable array of friends, mostly old with a few new -Folksinger Joan Baez, ex-Byrd Roger McGuinn, Nashville Star Ronee Blakley and even Poet Allen Ginsberg. "We were all very close," Dylan told TIME Correspondent James Willwerth. "We had this fire going ten years ago, and now we've got it burning again...
...applied for the places in writing. When the committee-assigning Democratic steering committee met, however, Baker appeared before it and announced that Burdick and Young had withdrawn their requests. No one questioned his word, and the seats were given to Missouri's Edward Long and Texas' William Blakley, both Johnson enthusiasts. As it turned out, neither Burdick nor Young had agreed to withdraw...
...Texas Democratic organization was feuding and fussing. When it came time to fill Lyndon Johnson's old Senate seat in last week's special election, the conservative wing was snarling at the pro-Kennedy wing, and the main campaign argument of Democratic Candidate William Blakley, 62, was that he had consistently voted against New Frontier legislation since he went to Washington in January as an interim appointee...
...Tower appealed only to bona fide Republicans, he would have had less chance than a snowball in Corpus Christi. But many conservative Democrats voted for him-partly in protest against Democrat John Kennedy, partly because Tower seemed to be a more vigorous conservative than Bill Blakley. Liberal Democrats also voted for Tower-for different reasons. With Blakley out, much more federal patronage will go to the liberals' darling in Washington, Senator Ralph Yarborough (who pointedly did not endorse Blakley). More important, Tower's victory was certain to hasten the coming of a true two-party system in Texas...