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...past Democratic national conventions, nobody showed more naked political muscle than Chicago's mayor, Richard Daley. As boss of a large, tightly controlled bloc of Illinois delegates, he was diligently courted by presidential candidates, whether they liked him or not. This year the mayor is destined to play a diminished role. Reform has made the kingmaker all but obsolete in the national Democratic Party...
Still hoping to make a deal with Hanrahan, Daley is trying to put a bright face on the affair. "This shows the strength of the Democratic Party," he says gamely. "You can have differences of opinion and you can work them out at the polls. We're having an open primary...
...Democratic Convention. If they emerge divided from a bruising primary, the Democrats will not be in the best shape to defeat Nixon -and once again Hanrahan may be keeping an eye on the voting machines. The Hanrahan affair could be the beginning of the end of Richard Daley...
...Richard Daley declares martial law in Miami and tries to arrest the entire Democratic convention when, after 134 ballots, it nominates Jerry Rubin for President. Vice Presidential nominee Larry DiCara attempts to sooth Daley, citing the need for "ethnic balance". Declaring that "extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice," Rubin says he will campaign on a radical platform of "ecological concern, cursing home reform and automobile safety...
Jackie divorces Aristotle Onassis "as a protest against the repressive policies of the current Greek regime." Below she is seen nightclubbing in New York with new beaux (l. to r.) RICHARD DALEY, S.I. HAYAKAWA and FRANCISCO FRANCO...