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...EARLY JULY, shortly before the Democratic Convention, Simon and Schuster published Julian Bond's first books. A Time to Act, subtitled. "The Movement in Politics," and sponsored as coming out party for the book at the White House Motor Inn in Atlanta. Twenty or so invited guests had already settled into the cocktails and hot and old hors d'oeuvres by the time Bond arrived, walking in on cat-lithe feet and wearing a vested blue suit. Just back from a trip politicking for George McGovern and about to leave on another. Bond made a relaxed beeline...
...toward integration, but they also have been courted with federal jobs and aid to small business. After receiving a pledge of $14 million for his Soul City housing project in North Carolina, onetime CORE Director Floyd McKissick announced for Nixon. He was labeled a "political prostitute" by Georgia Legislator Julian Bond, though he retorted that his decision had nothing to do with the grant...
...like public or private bureaucracy, and the whole trouble with left-wing movements is so much private bureaucracy." Nor has he limited his political practice (which earns him no more than about $30,000 a year) to left-wing cases. He also won the reinstatement of Julian Bond to the Georgia legislature, and he overturned the ban on Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer...
McGovern was also swayed by strong supporters among Democratic leaders, like Frances ("Sissy") Farenthold of Texas and Matthew Troy Jr. of New York, who said loudly that they could not vote for the ticket if Eagleton stayed on it. Few took the issue as lightly as Julian Bond of Georgia: "At least we know ours had treatment. What about theirs?" Chicago Mayor Richard Daley was compassionate. "All of us are sick sometimes," he said. "Many people become seriously ill, but they come back and carry on their activities very successfully and capably." The underlying, widespread worry was whether Eagleton would...
...heads the Credentials Committee, a ticklish assignment in view of the 1,000-odd challenges mounted. Mrs. Harris, 48, was initially opposed by party reformers who contended that she was too close to the old guard (she was L.B.J.'s Ambassador to Luxembourg). Georgia's Julian Bond called her appointment a "cynical trick"; he thinks that O'Brien figured "politicians like myself will be reluctant to oppose Mrs. Harris because she is a woman, because we don't want to be called chauvinist pigs, because she is black." But Mrs. Harris has worked hard to demonstrate...