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HIGH above the Isar River embankment in the ornate home of the Bavarian parliament, the 74-man International Olympic Committee met last week behind guarded doors to select a new president. After the ballots were counted and burned, Irish whisky was delivered to the conference room. The choice of drink was appropriate. Some hours later it was announced that the successor to Avery Brundage, for 20 years the autocratic arbiter of international amateur sport, was Michael Morris, Baron Killanin, of Dublin...
...universities, but by 1965 found Australian society also becoming too militaristic for his liking. He then turned for his living to what had become his hobby: making and throwing boomerangs. Says the 39-year-old Hawes, a sardonic, 280-lb. mountain of a man: "I decided to join the select group of people who work less and earn more by being unproductive. What could be more unproductive than throwing boomerangs? If you want the damn thing back, why throw it in the first place...
Eugene McCarthy possesses a deeply cultivated sense of poetic political whimsy. Last week on the Op-Ed page of the New York Times, he addressed himself to the much-debated question of how parties should select their vice-presidential candidates. After a flatly serious and closely reasoned discussion of the office itself, McCarthy proposed an intriguing new system: "Have the party convention choose the vice-presidential candidate and let him name the presidential candidate...
...preparing his acceptance speech at Camp David last week, efforts to broaden the party base met with defeat. The party did not stand completely still. After hearings chaired by former Florida Representative William Cramer, the Rules Committee voted some long-sought procedural changes. From now on, party caucuses to select delegates must be open to all qualified Republicans. Unless they are required by state law, assessments can no longer be charged to delegates, who sometimes have had to pay as much as $1,000 for the privilege of attending the convention. Party leaders and elected officials can no longer...
...real work you have to rely on yourself: move your own hands, see with your own eyes, mark documents in your own handwriting. Do not rely on secretaries! Do not let secretaries have too much power. My secretary controls only the comings and goings of documents; I myself select the documents for my own reading. What I want done, I do myself, to avoid misunderstandings...