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...Senator John Tower, a favorite son, released 44 delegates to Nixon last week, the former Vice President appeared comfortably past the 667 votes he will need for the nomination. New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller had 268 delegate votes, followed by California Governor Ronald Reagan with 161. A breakdown by regions of probable leanings and first-ballot votes, as reported by TIME correspondents in all 50 states...
...Gaullists capitalized on the average Frenchman's fear of chaos by showing special films that depicted the rampaging mobs and wanton destruction in Paris' Left Bank riots. Much of what the Gaullists said and showed was true enough. France had indeed been on the verge of a breakdown, and if De Gaulle had stepped aside instead of asserting his authority in late May, the country might well have slipped over the brink into civil war. The warnings about more impending disorders struck a responsive chord in the French character...
Boxing Lessons. That is the only struggle of note that Pierre Trudeau has experienced. He grew up in the affluent Montreal suburb of Outrement, the son of a self-made millionaire whose empire included an auto-breakdown service and a chain of gas stations. (Today, the family fortune is estimated at $7,000,000.) Young Pierre was driven to school by a chauffeur, as a boy was given private boxing lessons "because I was quite a puny child." Trudeau's father died when he was 14, and the loss saddened him for years. He went to a Jesuit college...
...officials, the mock space voyage had particular significance. To prevent a repeat of last year's tragic Apollo fire, they had spent $75 million improving and fireproofing the lunar command ship. And apart from some unexpected itching from the astronauts' new flameproof space suits, and a temporary breakdown of the huge vacuum testing chamber, the modified capsule's first full-fledged ground test was an unqualified success...
...defense mechanism; these dreadful things having happened, some Americans are anxious to regain their self-regard and the respect of others, and therefore hurry to accept the responsibility for awful events." It may be, agreed David Broder in the Washington Post, that the wave of assassinations heralds a "social breakdown," but it "seems to me a form of escapism to throw up our hands, and, like a chorus of Miniver Cheevy's, 'weep that we were ever born.' " Broder proposed acting instead of weeping. One of the first acts urged by almost all the press...