The useless exercise had taken all the prime-time television hours, when nearly eighteen million households were watching the convention. It was stopped and started during the evening of the bachelor party but the digital readout in the lower right corner kept the time and date. It is a difficult science and nothing is known for sure. When Coach Nolan Richardson’s Arkansas team won the NCAA Championship over Duke in 1994, I was in the arena.
He quickly started the car and pulled out onto Second and up to Spring. We walked like that all the way up Central Avenue to the fountain and the right turn to Park Avenue. On the left, young activists like Allard Lowenstein were urging anti-war Democrats to challenge President Johnson in the Democratic primaries. He moved back down the stairs and quickly looked into the living room but there was no TV.
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