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...campaign began with bumps for Correspondent John Austin. Covering the early phase of Richard Nixon's nomination quest, Austin was struck in the head by a 5-lb. package of confetti at a Chicago rally. Then, as he tried to keep up with a Nixon motorcade in San Francisco, he was hit by a police motorcycle. He took his wife to one political event, at Madison Square Garden. She made it through the police line easily without official credentials; he was detained, though he wore the laminated press card issued to newsmen only after they passed a federal security...
Nothing so unsettling has happened to Austin during the preliminaries of the 1972 campaign-at least not yet. Part of a Washington-based team whose members rotate among the would-be candidates, Austin drew Edmund Muskie as his first assignment. His reporting for this week's cover story really began eight months ago when he got his first long, close look at the Senator by accompanying him to London, the Middle East and Moscow. Austin has also talked politics with Muskie from Thomas Point, Me., to Capitol Hill. The only heavy objects hitting Austin during this period were...
...files to Associate Editor Lance Morrow, who wrote the cover story, Austin concentrated on Muskie's personality, tactics and campaign organization. Dean Fischer analyzed his legislative record. Simmons Fentress, a senior political correspondent who has been covering state and national elections from North Carolina to South Viet Nam for 20 years, assayed Muskie's overall strategy and how it relates to that of his competitors...
During six years spent in a law firm in Austin, Wilson was the principal attorney of Banker-Land Developer Frank Sharp. Sharp pleaded guilty earlier this year to federal fraud charges and, in testimony before Securities and Exchange Commission investigators, implicated Wilson in some of the business deals that preceded his downfall. The massive swindle masterminded by Sharp is the biggest Texas fraud case since Billie Sol Estes' capers of a decade ago. Sharp's manipulations have cost a Jesuit preparatory school $6,000,000, pushed two insurance companies into receivership, and led to the first bank failure...
...calm was perhaps a tribute more to the average American's traditional respect for the law than to firm guidance from his top lawmakers and executors. Last month President Nixon openly disavowed a busing plan for the Austin, Texas, school system that had been mapped out by Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Elliot Richardson, and warned federal officials that busing operations should be pressed only to the "minimum required by law." Last week Richardson returned from a long vacation to announce that he was in "complete agreement" with the President's stance. He also reported that Nixon...