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...contrast with the gloomy 1965 meeting in Chicago that followed the Goldwater rout, the 1967 national committee gathering was turned on by the nerve-end feeling-right or wrong-that Lyndon Johnson can be beaten. The credit, in large part, goes to plain-talking, publicity-shy Ray Bliss, who took over as national G.O.P. chairman two years ago, rebuilt the demoralized party as a credible political force among rural Southerners, big-city Northerners and Negroes...
...Star-Spangled Girl. Eden without Eve is Neil Simon's idea of Paradise. The eternal female drives his characters nuts. In The Odd Couple, a pair of poker-playing middle-agers fled their wives to room together in bachelor bliss. In The Star-Spangled Girl, a pair of post-Ivy League rebels share a dropout of an apartment with penurious satisfaction until a girl who looks like a whipped-cream frappé shows up to curdle their...
...realized, every bit of added motion is essential, since the plot is mired in a clicheland where the journey through life is so predictable that it seems exactly like going nowhere. It begins with Wedding-Night Jitters. Yes, the new groom is frightened back into his pants. Morning-After Bliss finds the couple beamish and breaking into a delightful soft-shoe dance in their bare feet. Comes the nine-month dawn, or Counting the Contractions. "This has been going on for millions and millions of years," coos Mary Martin reassuringly. Preston, looking as if he were in protracted labor pains...
Fading Blue Collars. A major?perhaps decisive?factor in the G.O.P. resurgence was the fact that National Chairman Bliss's "cities strategy" was beginning to pay off. During the campaign, he conducted more than 50 "big-city workshops" for precinct
...chairmen, followed them up with personal inspection tours. "It isn't necessary for us to carry the big cities to win statewide," said Bliss, "but let's reduce the losses...