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...doesn't want a rubber stamp or a carbon copy of himself" for a Vice President. Accordingly, he staked out positions slightly to the left of Humphrey's on at least two important issues. Referring to the conduct of Chicago's police, he noted that "a lot of innocent people were hurt." On Viet Nam, he conceded that Johnson's policy "has not worked to achieve a negotiated settlement" but urged all parties "to get away from this business of trying to blame one another on every tactical move...
Economic Upset. Privately, many Chicago business and civic leaders were shocked by the violence of Daley's cops. As one of them said: "A lot of people are as horrified as I am, but they see no real benefit in saying so as long as Daley remains in power." Some were upset for economic reasons. At week's end four professional and religious groups, including the 25,800-member American Psychological Association and the 2,863,000-member United Church of Christ, canceled plans for conventions in Chicago. The withdrawals will cost the world's largest convention...
...World War II, Italy's shoemakers were a down-at-the-heels lot, and Fiamma Ferragamo was a bright-eyed bambina in Florence. Having grown up together, both the Italian shoe industry and Fiamma are now well accustomed to each other. The world's largest exporter of leather foot wear, Italy sold $315 million worth of shoes abroad last year, is running 25% ahead of that pace in 1968. And as part owner and chief designer for one of the best known of her country's 8,000 shoe manufacturers, raven-haired Fiamma, now 27, reigns...
...foolish were the nine people who piled into a 16-ft. outboard and put to sea from York, Me., last June. Naturally, the boat soon foundered; eight of the nine boaters drowned. All nine might have been saved if they had only thought to carry life jackets. But a lot of people do not bother with them. And why? Consider the answer of one power-boater on Oregon's Willamette River when a Coast Guard safety check found no life preservers aboard his cabin cruiser. "They don't match the color of my boat, that...
THERE was a birthday bash prepared for the ballroom of the Brussels Hilton, with a lot of U.S. and Belgian officials and all 109 members of the New York Philharmonic Symphony invited. The musicians were not to supply the dance music; they were co-celebrators. The gifts included an original edition of Mahler's unfinished Tenth Symphony and a home stereo installation. Among the decorations: three 100-lb. sculptures of musicians carved in butter...