In his own brisk, tenacious way, Michigan's Republican Governor George Romney has striven to prove his campaign contention that he was a "citizen's candidate." Right after his inauguration last January, he established "Citizen's Thursdays," an open-door invitation to anybody who has anything whatever to say to him, provided the visitor says it within five minutes—a timer rings a bell to mark the close of each interview.
Citizen's Thursdays have been an immense popular success. So, too. was Romney's thrust to make sure of Detroit's selection as the official U.S. choice for the...