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Kansas City has festooned itself with red, white and blue bunting for the convention. Practically everything in town seems to smell of fresh paint, including such bump-and-grind joints along Twelfth Street as the Pink Door (a new coat of pink, naturally) and the Can-Can Club (mauve and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: A GRACIOUS TOWN IN THE HEARTLAND | 8/16/1976 | See Source »

One evening this week, as delegates to the Democratic National Convention work out the party's platform over prime-time television, as many as 60 million Americans will be riveted to their sets. Most of those citizens, however, will not be watching democracy in action at Madison Square Garden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Tedium Is the Message | 7/19/1976 | See Source »

Do Americans really want less bureaucracy? If so, the best hope would be to elect Ronald Reagan as President, plus a Republican Congress. Carter may be a nice guy, but he can't change a donkey into an elephant.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum: Red Threat: Burning Out? | 7/5/1976 | See Source »

So now that Catherine is just beginning to enjoy peace, at the age of 47, the absolute mistress of everything from Kiev to Kamchatka has found a new specimen of what the Russians call a vremenshchik (man of the moment). He is Pyotr Zavadovsky, 37, her private secretary, who has...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: AuRevoir, Potemkin? | 7/4/1976 | See Source »

Tired Tiger. For three hours, the bizarrely assorted crew sweated and struggled to raise the 17,508 sq. ft. of brilliant orange canvas in time for the evening's performance. All the while, a small, bearded figure zipped frantically through the melee, hauling on ropes, testing wires and worrying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICAN SCENE: The Circus: Escaping into the Past | 5/24/1976 | See Source »

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