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...Winning team at the Miami marathon," bragged NBC. "Audiences turned their attention to the CBS News team," proclaimed CBS. In the aftermath of the Democratic National Convention, each network announced that it had won the ratings game and quoted conflicting figures to prove it. Last week the A.C. Nielsen Co., which conducts the most reliable survey, confirmed NBC's claim. According to Nielsen, NBC drew an average 25% of the national viewing audience for the convention's four nights, compared with 23% for CBS and 16% for ABC (which came on the air from Miami Beach only...
...days after Sadat's marathon spasm of rhetoric, Israeli Premier Golda Meir delivered a comparatively brief (44-minute) statement to the Knesset. Mrs. Meir's speech was carrot after stick. "Boldness and political responsibility have been rewarded," she began. "Thanks to this policy, Israel is stronger today in every respect." But she ended with a low-key leader-to-leader appeal to Sadat: "Let us meet as equals and make a joint supreme effort to arrive at an agreed solution. We have not declared permanent borders, we have not drawn up an ultimative map, we have not demanded...
...volume, 4,000-page proposal, as well as three color movies. Some employees worked seven days a week, up to 48 hours in a stretch; the company had a rule that they had to quit by 6 p.m. on Sundays. After winning the contract, North American employees held a marathon champagne party...
After the marathon credentials session, the convention took on an air of inexorability. At noon on Tuesday, "because I can count," Humphrey withdrew his name from the race. Fighting back tears, comforting his wife Muriel, Humphrey told reporters: "This has been a good fight." At 61, it was Humphrey's final farewell. As the 37-year-old mayor of Minneapolis, he had galvanized the 1948 convention with his pleas for civil rights; he had been thought too radical all through the '50s, lost out to John Kennedy in 1960 and to Richard Nixon in 1968, and lived to find himself...
AMERICAN political conventions are perhaps democracy's most spectacular sacrament. H.L. Mencken found them "as fascinating as a revival or hanging," and they are often a little of both. As sheer theater, they are a special American form, a television marathon, a grandiose town meeting staged by DeMille. Yet for all their exuberant buncombe, their stretches of interminable tedium and their gusts of rhetoric, the conventions have the seriousness and the fascination of great political power in transfer...