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...Democratic Party fairly shines with the inner peace of the born-again. The presidential candidate, Jimmy Carter, awaits only his official anointment next Wednesday, July 14, at Madison Square Garden. Not since 1964 have all factions of the party been so purposefully unified. The New York City convention promises all the controversy of a riverside baptism in south Georgia. But as Party Chairman Robert Strauss says serenely, "It can't get too dull for me. I've tried it the other way, and I like this a lot better...
...delegates to the Democratic Convention might get into so much trouble that we'd turn Republican. Well, it just isn't like that. Every day of the convention the delegates and alternates-more than 5,000 of us-will be taken in buses from our hotels to Madison Square Garden. Then, after the session is over late at night, we will be bused back again. I sure don't mind that kind of busing-I guess...
...Madison Square, you see police everywhere, and some you don't see. Before he was indicted for selling a judgeship and tampering with evidence, Pat Cunningham, who was the New York State Democratic chairman, told people: "When you come out of the Garden at night, you will see some very strange people on the street. But don't worry. You'll be perfectly safe. Two out of three of them will be police undercover men." Assistant Chief Inspector Daniel Courtenay, a burly man who wears a gun in an ankle holster like Popeye Doyle, is in charge...
...with my image," says the singer-composer, who will sport beaded red and white striped knickers, as they call 'em in London, beneath his robes. Elton's tour, which he has dubbed "Louder Than Concorde But Not Quite As Pretty," has already sold 136,000 tickets at Madison Square Garden after a single day of radio commercials. So are these sartorial shenanigans necessary? Jokes John: "It is easier to come on as the Statue of Liberty than the Washington Monument." ∙ Patriotism may have its limits, but public relations does not. Paul Revere, 38, leader of the rock...
...great bulwarks of liberty, and can never be restrained but by despotic governments." For another, that "all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience." Mason had originally proposed only the "toleration" of different religious views; it was young James Madison who proposed that religious freedom become a right instead of a condescension...