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Beyond the televised happenings, members of the Young Voters group carried out quieter convention chores. They served as escorts to each of the 50 delegations, drove scores of cars to help party officials get around the city, held down about 35 clerical jobs, filled 40 posts as aides to Nixon Cabinet members. At the hall, 440 found jobs as messengers, pages and in other support roles. Even so, there were not enough duties to keep all of the youths fully occupied, and many felt underemployed. But for most, just being part of the convention scene was enough...
...chessboard so that it would reflect light into the opponent's eyes. Smoke blowing is probably almost as old. Finger drumming on the table is a despicable ploy, and as a distracting gambit it is forbidden in formal play. So are humming and singing. But there are subtler, quieter ways of psyching. Many players have been accused of trying to hypnotize opponents. Former World Champion Mikhail Tal has been credited with a "laserlike gaze," and Bobby Fischer with a "strange magnetic influence"-long before the ludicrous Russian charge last week that the Americans had installed brain-boggling electronics...
Administration officials believe that the absence of costly, wasteful strikes is a key reason for the nation's surge of economic growth. In one sense, 1972 was almost bound to be a quieter labor year than 1970 or 1971. The number of workers whose contracts come up for renewal this year is only about 3,000,000 v. about 5,000,000 or more in each of the past two years. But employers, some local union officials and mediators agree that a new and less militant psychology is also at work in labor bargaining...
...Goldberg would have loved this yard. The six supertankers and ore carriers that it completes in a year come as close as any ships yet to being untouched by human hands. Tsu is a world apart from the shipyards that I have seen in Europe; it is cleaner and quieter and often seems eerily empty...
...Harvard Square was a center of Movement culture--a gathering place for a New Left politicos, an arena for folk and rock concerts and street theatre, and a staging ground for protests and periodic riots. Since then the Square has become commercialized, the radicals have been arrested or become quieter, and much of the Movement has moved away from the more pastoral surroundings...