Word: babbitts
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What warmth Babbitt has to offer seems reserved for his family: Wife Hattie, 40, a Phoenix trial lawyer he met while working in the Texas antipoverty program, and Sons Christopher, 12, and T.J., 10. Ardent naturalists, the Babbitts regularly spent weekends and holidays hiking the canyons and skiing the mountains of northern Arizona before the campaign...
Like Carter, Hart and other once obscure presidential hopefuls, Babbitt is betting his candidacy on its first test: the Feb. 8 Iowa caucuses. Though he is still low in the polls, his organization is razor sharp in both Iowa and New Hampshire, where grass-roots efforts are particularly crucial...
Running a low-budget, long-shot campaign, Babbitt has not been above an occasional publicity stunt. Even before his stand-up routine on the NBC debate, he was the first presidential candidate to appear this year in a Saturday Night Live skit (in which he is caught trying to sneak extra grocery items through the express checkout). Following his disastrous video performance at the Houston debate in July, Babbitt almost daily practiced speaking into a videocamera, sometimes sending the tapes to an acting coach...
...Iowa was interpreted as a boost from a constituency that still remembers Harry Truman, the retirees' vote seems up for grabs. So far the only candidates who have dared stray from the party line are those so far behind in the polls that they have little to lose. Bruce Babbitt talks of raising taxes on Social Security benefits of the affluent elderly. Pat Robertson and Pete du Pont warn that Social Security is threatened with bankruptcy and advocate shifting some of the burden to private plans. "When the baby-boom generation retires, we're going to have to double taxes...
...Gray Lobby packs political punch. -- A New York City jury seeks balance in a race case. -- Bruce Babbitt can' t afford timid ideas...