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...pass through as they filed into the hall, protesters formed what must have seemed to many delegates gauntlets of terror, thumping the doors and trunks of the arriving cars and taxis, and spitting, swearing and screaming at the delegates themselves. The performance moved the Miami Beach police to tow old city buses into place to block off access to the convention site the following night...
After years of trying, he now has no trouble raising funds for Richard Nixon from wealthy Jewish sources. Appearing before groups of top Jewish leaders in as many as four cities a week, he makes a quiet approach, scarcely even mentioning money. Sometimes Henry Kissinger has been in tow to give a briefing on the summits, but he insists on leaving before there is talk of money. At the end of each session, Fisher raises amounts that surprise even him. Already, $3,000,000 has been collected toward a goal of $5,000,000. Says Fisher: "My work has never...
...board chairman of Holiday Inns, across two continents to gather material for this week's cover story. Anderson, based in our Rio de Janeiro bureau, accompanied Wilson on a swing through Brazil in search of new motel sites. Beginning as early as 4 a.m., Wilson, with Anderson in tow, visited with local officials, toured local marketplaces and even traveled the Amazon. "I had been warned about his pace," says Anderson, who is 29. "But I still wasn't ready for it. He worked constantly except for catnaps, and after a while I couldn't believe...
Today she is thinking-or says she is thinking-of things other than films. She writes verse in a loose, prosy style -"You be a Nubian, you be a sheep chained to death's tow rope," begins one of her poems-and she plans to write a screenplay. She even talks about writing a novel, which if it follows her own life would read like a collaboration between Louisa May Alcott and Harold Robbins...
...number tow the match was a contrast to that at number one. Harvard's rangy Ken Lindner kept the pressure on Bill Kellogg by repeatedly coming up to net. Lindner...