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William Styron, novelist, on political conventions: "I don't like all those people in funny hats, and I don't like the cocktail parties, and I don't like people from places I never heard of. Like South Dakota...
...Governor Richard Lamm, an early and vociferous Carter critic who was expected to urge other Democratic Governors to back a free vote at a meeting in Denver over the weekend. Governors Hugh Carey of New York, Joe Brennan of Maine, Tom Judge of Montana and Arthur Link of North Dakota have announced an anti-Carter position on the rule. So too have Senators Warren Magnuson of Washington, J. James Exon of Nebraska and Don Riegle of Michigan. The Pennsylvania delegation, which backs Kennedy narrowly, 94 to 91, is overwhelmingly in favor of the open rule...
...boat rides and concerts. North Carolina delegates were feted at a reception in Grosse Pointe Shores thrown by Ralph Wilson, owner of the N.F.L. Buffalo Bills. The Minnesota delegation was treated to a luncheon and fashion show at a suburban branch of Saks Fifth Avenue department store, and South Dakota delegates enjoyed a cookout at the Detroit Yacht Club. Under a huge tent at Stroh's Brewery, hundreds of visitors quaffed free bottles of Detroit's suds while listening to a five-piece country-and-western band that appeared to know a song for every state...
...Frontier Room, Dixie's Shasta Room, the Pine Room and the Cozy Room were raided by a task force worthy of an Abscam sting: the FBI, U.S. marshals, the South Dakota division of criminal investigation, the South Dakota Attorney General's office and the Lawrence County sheriffs office. After state officials filed public-nuisance charges against the bordellos, 27 girls and their three poodles were taken into custody as material witnesses in a federal grand jury probe. They were released and have not been seen since. A lot of people miss them...
...Republican side, as of 1 a.m. Reagan had garnered 85 per cent of the vote in West Virginia, 81 per cent in New Jersey, 83 per cent in South Dakota, 75 per cent in Rhode Island, and 71 per cent in New Mexico. In the Mississippi delegate voting, Reagan won all 22 delegates...