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...took the podium the way he had taken the convention???as if it belonged to him. He stretched out his arms to gather it all in. The fingers on both hands wigwagged victory Vs at the clapping, stamping, shouting, pulsing heart of the Republican Party. Four years ago, introducing Barry Goldwater at an identical moment, he had described himself as a "simple soldier" in the Republican ranks. Now the fortunes of political conflict had recommissioned him a five-star general. Richard Nixon was back for one more chance at Commander in Chief...
...Convention???A. B. A.'s 56th?met in Cleveland for the first time since 1899. And for the first time in history it was addressed by a President...
...going President Malcolm La- Salle Harris, 67, of Chicago, anesthesia authority, personified a nervous expectation which originated in his city and ran through the convention???that Dr. Louis Ernst Schmidt of Chicago would demand of the Association his reinstatement in the Chicago Medical Society. That society last spring ousted Dr. Schmidt, famed genitourinary surgeon, because he was a urologist as well as chief of staff of the Illinois Social Hygiene League which treats charity patients of Chicago's Public Health Institute, a clinic operating not for profit on the treatment of venereal diseases (TIME, April 22). To induce venereals...
...yearly National Education Association convention???public school superintendents, classroom teachers?occurred last week in Seattle. Many speeches were along traditional lines?for high professional ideals, for helpful supervision, for vocational education, better teachers' colleges, better salaries, frank conferences with girl pupils, geography as a basis of international peace; for?as always?dignifying public education by putting a U. S. Secretary of Education in the President's Cabinet as head of a Federal Education Department (instead of the present "Bureau" under the Department of the Interior with advisory powers only...
...list of prospective 'delegates to the Democratic Convention is about as long as that of Mr. Coolidge for the Republican Convention???but his prospect of an early nomination is much less because a two-thirds vote (730 votes) is required to nominate by the Democrats...