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Green, in a concession speech delivered in Philadelphia last night, equated the race to taking on a bazooka with a baseball bat.
Hayakawa, 70, the incautious anti-Establishmentarian, whose thin mustache appears to be a reluctant concession to the hairy types he used to do battle with on the San Francisco State College campus, where he was president during the strife-torn late '60s. In campaign appearances, the too earnest Tunney...
Trotsky, he said, told him, "You know we want you to take a concession in Russia." At the time Hammer says he was a little nonplussed, unsure about what Trotsky had in mind. Until, he says, Trotsky added, "But when the revolution comes in America, we will take it all...
That may be an exaggeration, although Kansas City's fiercely chauvinistic boosters do not think so. Unfortunately, many of the 22,000 people swarming into Kansas City, Mo., next week for the G.O.P. Convention will not see the best of the town. The new 17,000-seat, $23.2 million...
The story naturally caused a good deal of consternation at Reagan headquarters, prompting John Sears, campaign manager and Peter Lorre-figure, to announce that Reagan had 1140 delegates. An obviously bogus count, but one that the Post and Globe were forced to play prominently on their front page in penance...