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SONG CYCLE: VAN DYKE PARKS (Warner Bros.). Van Dyke Parks sings a surrealist's dream in a voice so innocent as to draw any listener into his experience. He has experimented with the usual recording technique by taping voice upon melody upon stereophonic sound effects, then mirroring it back at varying speeds until it becomes a collage of sound light-years away from a "live" performance. What does it matter if the lyrics are opaque at times? The effect is all shimmering beauty...
Nixon's game is poker, and in poker, he observed upon arriving in Miami Beach last among the candidates, "it's the fellow without the cards who does the strongest talking. I've got the cards." Nixon was so confident of his hand that he tarried on Long Island during the preconvention weekend. On Monday morning, he appeared at a naturalization proceeding in New York on behalf of his Cuban driver and cook, Manolo and Fina Sanchez. When he got to Miami Beach that evening, Rockefeller and Reagan were frantically and forlornly scampering after delegates. By this time...
...Wyoming added its twelve, for a first-ballot total of 692, compared with 277 for Rockefeller, 182 for Reagan and 182 sprinkled elsewhere. It was even less of a race than it seemed. Nixon had reserve votes in several favorite-son delegations that he could have called upon if necessary. Minnesota Congressman Ancher Nelsen, one of the nine whips working the floor for Nixon, had only one complaint: "We got rather hungry. Getting a hot dog?that was the biggest crisis we had." Floor Manager Rogers Morton told reporters: "The only time I got worried was when my shirttail came...
...bring himself to even utter the name of Spiro Agnew. "It is the privilege and tradition of the man who is the nominee," he said, "to pick his running mate. This is Mr. Nixon's day, and I have no comment." Privately, however, Rocky was furious, looking upon the choice of the obscure Maryland Governor as not only a personal slap in the face but also a serious blunder on Nixon's part. Agnew, he felt, was simply not up to the job. "It's Nixon's idea of how to solve the nation...
...claims considerably more than the 1,312 delegate votes that Humphrey will need to win in Chicago, the Vice President's operatives are straining to promote an open convention, lest the critics' outcries of "fix" tarnish his victory. Humphrey's survival in November, they reason, depends upon his emerging from Chicago with the image of a cool, competent and widely popular candidate. Bitter floor fights, coupled with the expected massive demonstrations outside the hall, would hardly foster that impression...