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...protests were laced with a deep sense of disappointment that the Soviets had regressed to their bad old ways. "It turns the clock back to the darkest days of the cold war," said New Zealand's Prime Minister Keith J...
Since its debut during the newspaper strike of 1963, The New York Review of Books has depended chiefly on two artists-David Levine and J. J...
Humphrey's apprehension over volatile Democratic loyalties on the eve of Chicago prompted him to provoke an ill-advised skirmish within the Ohio delegation last week. Humphrey operatives, irritated because Democratic Senatorial Can didate John J. Gilligan had not yet endorsed the Vice President, insisted upon a showdown caucus. Also, Humphrey wrote a letter to an A.F.L.-C.I.O. leader suggesting that Gilligan be pressured into making an endorsement. Immediately, union campaign contributions were withdrawn. In an angry caucus last week, Humphrey, who had counted on at least 100 of Ohio's 115 delegate votes, received only...
...assumed would be the least controversial of running mates. "I doubt that even the closest friends of Spiro Agnew," said a Rockefeller aide, "would suggest that he is qualified to be President." "It's the same old tricky Dicky," complained Bayard Rustin, a leader of black moderates. J. Earl Bearing, a Negro member of Nixon's advisory council on crime, admitted that even he was disturbed by Agnew's billy-club approach to civil disorders...
Pearson and Anderson concentrate much of their fire on L. Mendel Rivers, the crustaceous South Carolina Congressman, and on Connecticut's Senator Thomas J. Dodd. They cite Rivers as a classic example of the seniority system gone awry. A man of limited talent, Rivers rose to his exalted position as chairman of the Armed Services Committee only through the process of aging and the political savvy to be rhythmically re-elected by his constituents. Thanks to his influence, charge Pearson-Anderson, his home town of Charleston had military installations lavished upon it. "His district has prospered from his service...