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...Austin, liberal, Democratic Austin, has been known to take its own potshots at pompous Big D. In an anticipatory and funny recent stroke, Texas Monthly, a fat, fast and loose Austin publication, gave its readers a look at what the pols and the press might get into when the Republicans gather next week. The magazine asserted that the convention, a minds-made-up affair, would be so surpriseless that the networks would pursue "The Other Dallas" (CBS), "The Hidden Dallas" (NBC) and "The Dallas the Republicans Don't Want You to See" (ABC). Poverty in the black sections...
Mondale and Ferraro won their most exuberant reception in Austin, where 10,000 flag-waving people gathered at the state capitol. In San Antonio, Mayor Henry Cisneros hailed Ferraro as "family." Her reply: "Gracias, Primo Enrique [Cousin Henry...
Some of the public's ardor may be only curiosity about a historic ticket; many in the Austin audience drifted away after Ferraro finished speaking, before Mondale was done. Mississippi House Speaker C.B. ("Buddie") Newman greeted his party's candidates in Jackson, but refused to say how he would vote in November. Yet last week's jaunt seemed to confirm that even in the South, Ferraro is likely to be a strong asset. Said Lloyd Doggett, who is the Democratic Senate candidate in Texas: "If she can win in Archie Bunker's district...
...Austin, Texas. A crowd of 20,000, braving 100° temperatures, gathers in a riverside park. The featured speaker leans into the microphone for emphasis: "The national Democratic leadership is going so far left, they've left America." The crowd cheers. "Don't let them bury the American dream in their graveyard of gloom and envy...
Timothy H. Austin...