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...Republican Convention in Miami Beach, where peace, harmony and utter boredom had been expected to prevail next week, a fight over party reform is now shaping up. With the memory of the Democratic open combat still fresh in the public mind, Republican reformers are aware that their convention procedures may seem to many voters antediluvian, so they are determined to take their case to the convention floor, not only to advance their cause but to enhance the image of Republicanism as well...
...interpret the law liberally, believing that since teen-age sex is a fact, it ought at least to be protected sex. In any court test, they believe, the trend toward recognizing the civil rights of minors would prevail...
Many astronomers took a dim view of the event, partly because most sites for observing totality were inaccessible, partly because they expected heavy cloud cover to prevail in high latitudes, and also because nowhere did totality last longer than 2 min. 35.6 sec. Moreover, scientists are divided as to the value of studying eclipses. The Young Turks in the field say condescendingly that it's an old man's game, an occasion for repeating familiar experiments. The old hands retort that there is still much that can best be learned during eclipses. Even if they are repeating experiments...
...confrontation, the regime would likely prevail. In the four years since it seized absolute power, the Baath Party has ruthlessly consolidated its rule. One method was the execution of more than 120 potential opponents, some of whom were strung up in Baghdad's Tahrir Square in grisly public hangings. Other enemies of the regime languish in a Baghdad prison that Iraqis ironically refer to as the "Palace of the End." President Ahmed Hassan Bakr, 57, the cautious army general who was installed to arbitrate between feuding Baath factions, has become a figurehead as Vice President Takriti concentrated power...
Most of the time, though, euphoria seemed to prevail. One convert from the drug world, Alaskan Ken Davenport, 24, compared the Dallas scene with the rock riot at Altamont: "There you didn't know if somebody was going to knife you. Here it's full of love." In Dallas' nightclub district, barflies were amazed to find the young evangelists offering them Bright's mustard-yellow pamphlets. A policeman working amid the crowds at the Cotton Bowl said in bewilderment, "I must have gotten bumped 3,000 times, and every time the person said 'Pardon...