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...line party discipline, to organized labor. Gone were the tightlipped, gravel-voiced party barons from the tiers of the New Jersey, New York and Illinois delegations. Gone were the trappings that moved Will Rogers to describe conventions as "the Fourth of July of American politics." One waited for the pipe organ to sound, for the delegates to pour into the aisles, for state banners held aloft to parade the hall...
...Thus the anti-McGovernites could not raise their point of order; they had won a battle but lost the war. There was now no way to stop McGovern on California. Said Hart: "It was one of those times when politics is really fun. We played South Carolina like a pipe organ...
...Shankill district is a Protestant Bogside, barricaded and bellicose. Just off the Shankill Road, past a checkpoint of steel pipe driven into the pavement, is the headquarters of C Company, Ulster Defense Association. ¶Company patrols, some riding Land Rovers, mount round-the-clock guard over the area's narrow back streets. From C Company headquarters, a two-way radio network keeps the patrols in contact, while a clandestine broadcasting station-named Radio Free Nick, for nearby Nixon Street-keeps up local residents' morale with pop-record requests and Orange marching songs. ¶Company is one of eleven...
Rumors that police had arrived filtered into the building, and the crowd fled. They left water gushing from an open pipe, and a small paper fire burned on the second floor. As the marchers filed out the rear entrance, a Harvard police car glided into the parking lot behind the building. Two policemen leaped out and chased the group across Divinity Ave., where they rejoined 1200 other marchers and onlookers who had not entered the building...
...actual world of fantasy goods. The 50 creations on display include a masochist's coffeepot with the spout over the handle, thus guaranteeing a scalding for anyone who uses it; an hourglass filled with pebbles, not sand, "for people who don't want to grow old"; a pipe with four different faucets for water at different temperatures; a hammer with a handle so bent that nobody can hit his thumb; a cat-shaped traveling bag with handles and a perforated Plexiglas nose for taking one's pet tabby on a trip; an "absorbent bottle" made...