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Transportation is expensive and parking is almost nonesistent. Traffic has worsened every day since last Thursday when the influx of Democrats began, and it will get worse as the week progresses. People move in droves, pressing close to candidates as they drift from meeting to meeting. Others opt for poolside sun, or just remain in their rooms waiting for each convention session...
...pains in New York to proclaim himself a firm supporter of Israel, some Jews still mistrust him; some also feel that McGovern's political aura is too radical. San Francisco's Mayor Joseph Alioto, a Humphrey supporter, fears that the Italian community, finding McGovern "too permissive," would drift into the Republican column. Says an Illinois delegate: "McGovern has to get in tune with the realities of the middle class. If he doesn't, he's headed for disaster...
...community close-knit-an important factor in last week's decision. Unlike the Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana Amish communities, all large and long established, the Amish settlers in the rolling countryside around New Glarus (pop. 1,400) are a group of about 150 newcomers who began to drift into the area...
...decision was all but final when Kissinger flew to Camp David Sunday morning, got the drift from Nixon, and returned to hold a meeting of his Washington Special Action Group to discuss contingency plans for the mining. The first public tip-off of an impending crisis came when Nixon summoned Rogers home to Washington...
...accord, which is to take effect by July 1, reduces the "trading margins" of the six member currencies from 4½% to 2¼%. In practice, that will mean Common Market currencies can drift no more than l⅛% either above or below the midpoint of the new 2¼% band. When any one currency reaches its upper or lower limits, the central banks of member countries will intervene by buying or selling each other's currencies. Until now, the banks have done this by buying or selling dollars...