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...fact, only after Dubček sensed the extent of the nation's misgivings did he and other leaders publicize the real significance of the showdown. Six thousand party workers from all across the country were called into Prague for briefings on the conferences. The press, which had been asked by the regime to tone down its anti-Soviet polemics, ran reassuring editorials. "The sovereignty of Czechoslovakia has remained and will remain untouched," wrote Lidová Demokracie, a Prague daily. Dubček, again on radio and TV, spoke to his people. "Fears about any secret deal are unfounded...
...meant to apply to John Wayne, who was called on for an "inspirational reading" rather than a run-of-the-mill invocation. Demonstrations for candidates were also cur tailed. When Lincoln was nominated in 1860, such a din rocked Chicago's Wigwam auditorium that, as one witness observed, "a thousand steam whistles, ten acres of hotel gongs, a tribe of Comanches might have mingled in the scene unnoticed." Miami Beach will be different. This time candidates were limited?in theory at least?to 20-minute outbursts in their behalf with no more than one 50-piece marching band...
After the announcement that the leaders would move on to Bratislava for another conference, the country was confused. A restless, worried crowd of several thousand people assembled in Prague's Old Town Square. "Tell us the truth!" they shouted when National Assembly President Josef Smrkovský came out on a balcony. "For how much did you sell us to the Russians?" "If I told you that I am not ashamed to look into the eyes of our citizens after Cierna," Smrkovský replied earnestly, "would you believe me?" In his radio address, Dubček reassured the people that...
...thousand American college and university faculty members, including twenty-seven from Harvard, have subscribed to the statement that Hubert Humphrey is "the thinking man's choice for next President of the U. S.", and have become charter members of a national Professors for Humphrey Committee...
...England is still a respectable and enjoyable experience. The taxi is a pleasure to ride in, and the English cabbie is still very much the gentleman." Katz, a Cornell senior in engineering, is obviously interested in the quality of American life outside of the petty profit of a thousand dollars he's making on each...