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...such leading markets as New York City, Houston and San Diego. The company's brashly imitative advertising campaign tells customers to "reach out and touch someone. But do it for half of what Bell charges." Meanwhile, ITT, Western Union and even the parent corporation of the Southern Pacific railroad have started up similar operations...
...their long hours, Wilkie and Bradley fared much better than less celebrated colleagues. While the little-shots settled for free beer and sandwiches at a press lounge funded by the railroad industry lobby, the Globe contingent was enjoying a final $300 expense account lunch at Luchow's (chosen because it was a favorite hangout of Convention Chronicler H.L. Mencken...
There are other facets of the conventions the TV cameras ignore--the railroad press lounge in the Garden basement, for example, where employees of the railway lobby distribute free beer, sandwiches, and advice about the need for more government subsidies to the rail industry. But the biggest distortion of the TV broadcasts is their ability to add excitement where it doesn't exist, and paradoxically, to miss the spirit during the few moments of true emotion...
Sellers loved gadgets, too. He once owned a garage laid with 500 feet of model railroad track. He bought more than 50 cars in his day, and loved his Rolls-Royce as much as the next guy. His prized toy was a life-sized mechanical elephant...
...orchestra launched into "I've been working on the railroad" on a number of occasions, presumably because if Reagan gets elected, the trains will run on time. But for the GOP to have such a united convention last week, there must have been a unifying factor, one thing that caused ultra-conservatives like Jesse Helms and moderates like George Bush and Henry Kissinger to abandon their "principles." That factor was the person of Ronald Reagan, a sincere, likeable, even comforting figure. Wherever he appeared, he conveyed a personal air of respectability and pleasantness...