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From the north wall of the Cow Palace jutted a $250,000 broadcast booth, newly completed for three TV networks. In the south wing, office cubicles for radio, newspaper and magazine reporters took shape. Telephone men installed 36,000 miles of wire, 3,000 phones. Overhead, a 40-ft.-by-100-ft. banner swung into place, bearing a likeness of Lincoln and the legend "Of the people, by the people, and for the people...
Fleets of rental cars are streaming into the city. A brigade of some 500 chartered buses will be shuttling constantly between downtown San Francisco and the Cow Palace, 61 miles away...
...well it might be. By conservative estimate, the conventioners will generate $5,000,000 in new business. One who is nonetheless disgruntled is Micheal DeBernardi, 38, the publicity-conscious mayor of Daly City (pop. 57,200) outside San Francisco. Daly City recently annexed the unincorporated area on which the Cow Palace stands. And whatever the handouts say, insists DeBernardi, the Republican Convention is not really being held in San Francisco at all. Welcome to Daly City...
Sweden's quiet miracle has been wrought by a potent triumvirate of employers, unions and government that has virtually eliminated strikes in Swedish industry, boosted productivity and assured its workers the best pay rates and fringe benefits in Europe. By milking the capitalist cow instead of nationalizing it, Sweden's labor government sustains the comprehensive social-welfare program that is creating "a home for its people...
HIGH SPIRITS. Anyone who can count to two will recognize the source of all the zany good humor that has been injected into this musical version of Noel Cow ard's Blithe Spirit. The blithesome twosome-Bea Lillie and Tammy Grimes...