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Before Carter strode down a floor aisle amid standing cheers, delegates and TV viewers watched a skillful, effective film, produced by Carter's media director Gerald Raffshoon, that traced the candidate's lonely fight for the nomination through 19 months to its triumphant finish. The film even took humorous delight in cartoonists' fascination with Carter's glistening toothy grin...
...moderate and strike-free auto settlement would vastly strengthen that healthy trend. It also would bring to a triumphant end the union career (Woodcock, who, having turned 65, will have to retire next year, and strengthen his chances of landing a Government job -just possibly, Secretary of Labor in a Carter Administration...
...Yorkers watched helplessly from housetops and quays (spyglasses were in great demand) while General Howe took three leisurely and triumphant days to establish his armies on the green shores of Staten Island. Tents gradually dotted the countryside...
...sweep of this first volume (more are to come) extends from the start of the 2nd century to Constantine's triumphant emergence from a series of civil wars in A.D. 324. With his very first unhesitant sentences, Gibbon sets the situation and foreshadows the outcome...
...with amused contempt. Their martyrdoms were far fewer than religious enthusiasts now claim, he says. And he maliciously derides the church's "uninterrupted succession of miraculous powers, of healing the sick and raising the dead." Gibbon sees little if any progress when the early Christians "finally erected the triumphant banner of the Cross on the ruins of the Capitol." On the contrary, he believes that the Christians were too otherworldly at a time when the world's concerns badly needed attention...