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Before leaving for Kansas City, Nation Editors Marshall Loeb and Ronald Kriss worked out editorial plans for this complicated news event, while other members of the Nation staff requisitioned and shipped off everything from typewriters (which Kansas City has run out of) and rubber bands to 15 cartons of files, newspaper clippings, back issues of TIME and a collection of political reference works -indispensable to the research staff. "After packing up all the cartons," Chief Nation Researcher Margaret Boeth recalled, "we realized that we had left out one book-the Bible." So just in case a candidate should prove fond...
Gerald Ford, the unelected President, had not only failed to set off a bandwagon that would guarantee him the 1,130 votes needed for a first-ballot nomination, he was even doggedly on the defensive against the amazingly persistent challenge of Ronald Reagan. Breaking tradition, Ford planned to fly to the convention city before the proceedings opened so that he could direct the tense fight to hold his dutiful, if uninspired, delegate lines. With 59 White House staffers also on hand (35 would pay their own expenses), Ford was to take charge from a suite in Kansas City...
Thus the 60-member Mississippi delegation to the Republican National Convention has been both dismayed and delighted by its potentially pivotal role in selecting the party's presidential nominee. It has also been confused. After Ronald Reagan named the liberal Senator Richard Schweiker as his choice for a running mate, Delegate Malcolm Mabry changed his mind twice in 48 hours. He finally settled on Reagan-right where he had begun...
...thus be the most powerful figure on the podium-until the nominee mounts it to deliver his acceptance speech. A genuine intellectual and the first Republican elected to the House from Arizona, he will rule on any disputes that may arise between the forces supporting President Ford and Challenger Ronald Reagan. The most crucial one could be over whether delegates must vote for the candidate they were chosen to support by home-state voters, or whether they are free to cast their ballots as they wish. A companion stickler: Can delegates abstain? Since it is generally agreed that Ford...
...shuddered, then dived-suddenly and steeply. A pot of greenbacks and a few coins went sailing down the aisle; little of it was ever retrieved. It was one of the few times when John Sears did not win at poker. Sears is currently playing for infinitely higher stakes as Ronald Reagan's campaign manager. Thus, when the Californian's presidential hopes took a nosedive last month, Gambler Sears was forced to try to salvage the situation. By persuading Reagan to announce that Pennsylvania Senator Richard Schweiker was his choice as running mate, Sears confused the Republican delegate picture...