Word: winning
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...only weak part of the Democratic production may be the climax. Vice President Hubert Humphrey has long been odds-on favorite to win a first-ballot nomination, and remained so on the eve of the convention. But even there, the Democrats were contriving to provide some suspense. Thanks to Humphrey's stumbling performance in recent weeks, doubts were multiplying about him as a candidate-and as a potential President. Rumors circulated in Chicago and Washington that if deadlock developed, delegates would draft Senator Edward Kennedy, who emerged from 21 months of seclusion to deliver an impressive speech in which...
Humphrey, whose position lies somewhere between McCarthy's and the Administration's, wound up saying nothing during the platform fight. But his aides sought to win acceptance of a moderate plank, along the lines of one carpentered by Theodore Sorensen, former speechwriter for President John F. Kennedy. The effort failed, ironically, when two other former Kennedy men, representing the McCarthy and McGovern camps, forced Sorensen to agree to a more dovish statement than Hum phrey was likely to approve. During a daylong hassle, Sorensen clashed repeatedly with McCarthy Speechwriter Richard Goodwin and Pierre Salinger, a McGovern aide...
...February, George Romney was an ex-presidential candidate, while Nelson Rockefeller played Hamlet, thus opening the way for Richard Nixon, the perennial loser, whose chances had been so widely written off. Whoever expected a Senator with a professorial past, who sometimes bored his audiences, to defy the President and win the New Hampshire primary...
...compact action, nothing quite compares with quarter-horse racing. A horse that covers 350 yds. in 18 sec. is likely to win, while a horse that finishes only one second later can be dead last. And big money rides on every split second. Pari-mutuel betting is now permitted in 13 states, and last year's total handle was $78,328,686. In that same period, purse money increased from $1,752,256 to $6,984,558. Dollar for distance, it is the richest racing in the world...
STRIKES by public employees make almost everyone unhappy except the strikers themselves-and sometimes even them. When sanitation men refuse to pick up garbage and teachers stay away from their classrooms, the resulting disruptions win little sympathy for their cause. As a result, workers who provide vital public services are turning increasingly to work slowdowns -strikes, of a sort, that do not carry quite the onus of a full-scale walkout. As Anthony D'Avanzo, general chairman of New York City Lodge 886 of the Brotherhood of Railway Carmen, put it last week, "We don't want...