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...order about what constituted a majority on challenges, thereby bringing O'Brien's ruling to a vote. In that event, all of the 3,016 delegates except those under challenge in South Carolina could vote on the question?making it much more difficult for the McGovern forces to muster the votes they needed. The majority determined by the South Carolina vote would set the rule for California. Said Kampelman: "The twilight zone is us trying to play roulette...
...president, Taylor will probably need all the moxie he can muster, since most of the corporation's board remain conservative in money matters. But the young president can afford to bide his time. His two bosses, Stanton and CBS Founder William Paley, are 64 and 71 respectively...
...approached, Thieu's forces put pressure on Senators; some of them said that they had been offered as much as $12,200 and a round-the-world air ticket for a yes vote. In the end, though the Senate had previously defeated a similar bill, the opposition could muster only 24 out of 60 votes. With passage certain, they tried to delay the vote, then simply boycotted a meeting called by pro-Thieu Senators, who waited until after the 10 p.m. curfew and finally voted 26-0 to give Thieu what he wanted...
That sort of demonstrative patriotism began to fade with Viet Nam. In the last few years, the most prominent Memorial Day services have been held by war protesters-but even they no longer seem to muster much enthusiasm or anger. Still, the war dead-especially those fallen in that most wretched of American conflicts-were remembered, if only in the privacy of the homes that lost them. Inevitably, they also must have been remembered by a President who was thousands of miles away in quest of elusive peace...
...Passing Muster. The crowning irony is that Ford's engines might well have passed muster if the tests had been properly performed. As far as emissions go, the engines differ very little from those in current models. The only new federal requirement is installation of a device designed to limit oxides-of-nitro-gen emissions to 3 gm. per mi. or less. The same system is already required on cars sold in California, though the emissions limit there is 3.2 gm. per mi., and Ford's 1972 engines met that standard -indicating that at worst the engines...