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...nominated. Some 75% of the convention delegates will be selected in the primaries this year, and Mondale argues that Humphrey would have to start raising money and building an organization by late February. "I'm not going to do it," says Humphrey, much as he would grasp the presidency if he could get it some other...
...seminal soap writer who dominated the genre for 40 years, even thought she should forgo her credit to enhance the shows' realism. It was Phillips who anchored the soap to the family and peopled it with professionals. The youngest of an Iowa grocer's ten children, she used her grasp of the powerful mythologies that fill family life to enliven even the most banal script. Four of her shows?Days of Our Lives, As the World Turns, Another World, and The Guiding Light?are still running, though she died...
From the moment he announced his candidacy last July, Ford has often been his own worst enemy. He barnstormed the U.S. as though it were his old congressional district in Grand Rapids, and succeeded only in giving the impression of being a President on the run. To dramatize his grasp of foreign affairs, he flew to Peking and had a useful talk with Chairman Mao, only to draw yawns back home. To underscore his presidential decisiveness, he drastically reshuffled his Cabinet, managing only to project a picture of presidential disarray. Instead of appearing to be the man to beat...
...Electric Co. (But for Jones to be elected, the Constitution would have to be amended. He was born in England, and brought to the U.S. as a child.) Another businessman on many lists would be Thornton F. Bradshaw, 58, the innovative president of Atlantic Richfield Co. He has a grasp of the nation's energy needs and extensive experience in dealing with foreign governments. Bradshaw also holds three degrees...
Intellectually, too, not much is there. Hougan knows about America and Europe in the sixties, and he knows some odd bits of philosophy. He has no grasp at all of American history, which accounts for the overwhelmingly present-oriented tone of Decadence. Now, Hougan is saying, is the time of real crisis in America; if the world at this moment seems on the verge of unprecedented fundamental change, it's because it is on the brink of such a change. If crazy political, spiritual and religious sects are proliferating, it's a natural response to unprecedented times like these. Perhaps...