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There is nothing inevitable about this, of course. But it would be a hair-raising gamble. In response to newspaper headlines asserting that he was "betting the farm" that his plan would succeed, Dole observed that he was in fact "betting the country." He meant to sound confident, but that may not be how his remarks resonate with the voters...
Such was the case last week as we debated what should be on this cover: the tantalizing evidence of life on Mars, or our Republican Convention package featuring Dole's choice of a running mate. One so timeless, the other so temporal. Other than through jokes about signs of life on Mars and in the G.O.P., it was hard to juxtapose them. And both subjects--the wonders of American politics and the marvels of science and technology--happen to be passions of mine...
...when national political correspondent Michael Duffy called Wednesday morning to say that Bob Dole seemed set to surprise folks by picking his longtime antagonist Jack Kemp as a running mate, we realized that the convention package being prepared by Stephen Koepp, Priscilla Painton and their Nation team was becoming the most fascinating political story of the year. It embodied all the marvelous interplay between politics and personality that has been TIME's franchise for 73 years. If the presidential race is destined to tighten (and I suspect it is), this could do it, and it will help clarify the very...
PHYLLIS MACEY Dole's first wife finally tells her side of the divorce: she didn't want it; it was speeded...
...host committee. The bags include a number of special convention-edition products, ranging from macaroni and cheese with elephant- and star-shaped macaroni from Philip Morris to Hefty storage bags from Tenneco to a "roll back the beer tax" mug from Anheuser-Busch. Also included are raisins by Dole Food, baseball caps from Warner Bros. and MSNBC, and a copy of the new book by G.O.P. chairman Haley Barbour--and all in a red-white-and-blue tote...