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...such a spirit of amity, the 5,000 delegates and alternates may find their chief excitement outside the Garden, in the Big Apple that is playing host to its first Democratic Convention since the monstrous marathon of 1924, when John W. Davis won on the 103rd ballot...
...Exxon, Texaco. Mobil Oil, Standard Oil of California, Gulf Oil. Standard Oil (Ind.). Shell Oil, Atlantic Richfield, Continental Oil. Phillips Petroleum, Union Oil of California, Sun Oil, Ashland Oil, Cities Service, Amerada Hess, Getty Oil, Marathon Oil. Standard Oil (Ohio...
...Hampshire and 8 p.m. last Tuesday in California, some 25 million Americans had voted in 31 primaries-the most ever. By direct vote they chose about 75%-also the most ever-of all the Democratic and Republican delegates who will sit in the nominating conventions this summer. The marathon had cost the candidates and the taxpayers at least $65 million. The process had left many a numb politician and citizen wondering if there is not a better way to choose the people who will run for President...
...What is, is," says Werner Erhard, 40, a former trainer of encyclopedia salesmen and founder of Erhard Seminars Training Inc., one of the more mind-boggling of the many self-help programs to come out of California. In 70 hours over two marathon weekends, est aims at "transforming your ability to experience living "through techniques apparently derived from Scientology, psychoanalysis, humanistic psychology, Arica, Gestalt, transactional analysis and various Eastern religions. Since 1971, est has "graduated" 83,000 people in twelve cities...
...next movie, due out this fall, is Marathon Man, a title appropriate for Britain's ever active master of the stage, Laurence Olivier, 69. But last week Lord Olivier confessed he has been slowed a little. "I've had quite a bad time of it for two years or so," he said, breaking a long silence about nagging health problems. His ailment? "It is called dermatomyositis, a wasting inflammation of the muscles. It's a rare disease, dammit, and no doctor can say whether you are going to get better." The illness, which sent Olivier...