Once every four years TIME'S National Affairs departmentaided and abetted by all pertinent resources of TIME Inc.squares off to meet one of the most exciting and exacting news coverage problems on the American scene: the nominating conventions that produce the two major candidates for President of the United States. This week the Republicans are convening in Philadelphia, and TIME'S representatives are thereas they will be three weeks from now for the Democratic conventionto try to tell you what happened and why.
At this juncture the pundits have pretty much had their say. From now...