Word: processes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...conclusion) and portions of the week's activities live from Convention Hall. ABC will limit its coverage to a 90-minute summary (9:30-11 p.m.) of each day's events with behind-the-scenes sto ries and round-table discussions of the nomination process. William F. Buckley Jr., Gore Vidal, Howard K. Smith and Bill Lawrence report...
...institutionalization of promising youngsters, who were to be schooled thoroughly in mathematics, philosophy, fine arts and gymnastics. There would be no personal wealth nor family life-they would, however, be permitted to mate under "civic control" with specially selected women. At 35, the Grecian would graduate from the process as the perfect leader-void of personal ambition and with concern solely for the well-being of the Greek democratic system...
...delegate is a long record of giving time and energy to the party of his choice. This is what may pin the hack label upon him-though it also clearly demonstrates a continuing concern, whether base or altruistic, that makes him feel far more entitled to shape the political process than his long-indifferent neighbors...
Smith has attended every convention since 1944; he supported Dewey, Taft and Goldwater. He now "leans" toward Nixon, though "I'm not a zealot for him like some members of the delegation. I think that people who've been in the political process as I have are comfortable with Dick Nixon, I've always trusted him and felt grateful to him, I could feel this way about Rockefeller or Reagan if I knew them better, but I don't, There's the old saying here-stay with a friend...
...operate in a vacuum. Every instrument of public opinion is focused on you. If you wear a delegate badge, five people stop you before you can get across the hotel lobby, and every one of them asks, 'What are you gonna do?' In the whole convention process now, more and more influences are reaching the delegates, moving them farther from the old boss system." Kaler argues that this must bring the outcome "pretty close to what the people want...