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After the untidy fumbling, McGovern's acceptance speech that night might have been reassuring to some members of the party?and might have won him some new sympathizers nationally. The trouble was that most of the nation was already fast asleep by the time he spoke. As the delegates met...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONVENTION: Introducing... the McGovern Machine | 7/24/1972 | See Source »

Young Eli Broad, a bright, broke, freshly certified public accountant, closed what proved to be his most important deal in 1956: in exchange for free space in the small Detroit office of Builder Donald Kaufman, he agreed to do the contractor's bookkeeping. Broad quickly sensed that rich rewards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONSTRUCTION: Broad Builds Up | 7/17/1972 | See Source »

It seems that the Gambinos, at least, are certain who the killer was. Being perfectionists in the techniques of homicide, they are said to have convened their own court of inquiry into Gallo's death. They charged that the execution was a near-botch, an untidy, saloon-style shootout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blood in the Streets: Subculture of Violence | 4/24/1972 | See Source »

One of man's nobler qualities is his irrepressible drive to apply reason and a sense of order to a world that is stubbornly irrational and untidy. Few official documents illustrate that passion more forcefully than President Nixon's annual State of the World reports. His third, prepared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: The Nixinger Report | 2/21/1972 | See Source »

One interviewer from a Southern state college almost fell back onto his unmade bed when I showed him my credentials. While waiting outside his hotel room, I had talked to those in line. When I dared to question the selection of 1876 as a terminal date for the job description...

Author: By Peter C. Rollins, | Title: Learning to Live With A Degree From Harvard | 2/3/1971 | See Source »

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