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...room looked like the campaign headquarters of a well-heeled candidate. Red, white and blue bunting festooned the walls, and pretty girls in tricolor jackets served doughnuts and cups of steaming coffee to visitors. Inside the television studio of Kaiser Broadcasting's Detroit office, even the klieg lights were filtered in the national colors. But the crowd that settled into chairs before the speaker's platform were not prospective voters, or delegates, but candidates. They had come for a seminar on a topic of paramount importance to each of them: how, in the era of instant communication...
...days last week, Detroit area politicians and hopefuls studied at the feet of two masters of political cosmetics: spruce, wisecracking Roger Ailes, television adviser and image maker to President Nixon, and soft-drawling Gordon Wade, onetime director of communications for the Republican National Committee. Under the sponsorship of Kaiser Broadcasting, the pair have now held six bipartisan sessions in major cities, giving advice that ranges from the fundamental ("Money is the mothers' milk of politics") to the peripheral ("Get long socks. Nobody likes to see a patch of bare leg over a droopy sock"). Unusual as it seems...
...Winship and the Taylor family. Publisher Davis Taylor is content to give his editors considerable leeway and solid financial backing. The Herald management diverted attention and resources into the long, doomed fight to save its broadcasting license (TIME, May 8); the Taylors have sold much of their interest in Kaiser-Globe Broadcasting and invested proceeds in a $6,000,000 expansion of the newspaper...
Philipp Scheidemann, the Social Democratic Party's deputy leader, was having a bowl of potato soup in the Reichstag dining room when he was told that the Kaiser had abdicated and that Karl Liebknecht, the left-wing firebrand, was about to proclaim Germany a Soviet republic. To head him off, Scheidemann hurried to a balcony and shouted to the crowd below: "Workers and soldiers. The cursed war is at an end. The Emperor has abdicated . . . Long live the German Republic!" That night, over a secret line from GHQ in Belgium, came a message for the Socialist leaders from...
...writer spoke to the Washington Post's Robert G. Kaiser and the New York Times's Hedrick Smith in the Moscow apartment of his attractive second wife, Natalya, 32, he frequently consulted with her about whether to answer certain questions. She, in turn, often glanced at the ceiling, to indicate that electronic listening devices were undoubtedly recording the conversation. During the interview, the couple's 15-month-old son Yermolai played happily on the floor...