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...Spain, jetting about the country to rallies in a chartered plane. Seeking to establish his party as the major alternative, he concentrated his fire on Fraga's Popular Alliance and Suárez's coalition. He charged that 80% of the U.C.D. candidates were interchangeable with those of Fraga's party???like "Pepsi and Coca Cola...
While Carter has a long way to go to prove himself, his coming to power overshadowed all other developments in 1976, the year of the Bicentennial. The U.S. gave itself a glorious birthday party???climaxed forever in the mind's eye by the vision of the tall ships ghosting up New York Harbor. There was also a valid occasion for some old-fashioned Yankee Doodle pride. For the first time in the 75-year history of the honors, all of the Nobel Prizes went to Americans?six men won or shared the science awards, and Saul Bellow capped a distinguished...
Such men have much in common. They grew up in states in which there was only one viable party???Democratic, of course. Within that party, factions abounded, successful statewide campaigns were often launched on the basis of little more than the support of Establishment friends and neighbors, and, to a much greater degree than in the North, substantive issues were generally smothered by the shouts of ornate orators who could win by wowing the boys at the forks of the creek...
Republican officeholders, of course, do care about their party??? and last week more desperately than ever. For that reason, perhaps above any other practical one, the President's days in office seemed numbered. "Over the weekend, there are going to be some decisions made," said a top Republican congressional leader. "People are going to be thinking about things. I don't know what the decisions will be. I have the monkey on my shoulder, no doubt about...
After the untidy fumbling, McGovern's acceptance speech that night might have been reassuring to some members of the party???and might have won him some new sympathizers nationally. The trouble was that most of the nation was already fast asleep by the time he spoke. As the delegates met, another long parliamentary struggle broke out over whether the convention should adopt party reform rules immediately or, as McGovern wished, wait until 1974 in order to avoid undue offense to party regulars who would be displaced by a new, expanded Democratic structure. McGovern prevailed...