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Jonathan Moore, director of the IOP says the excitement in the Forum helps the Institute fulfill its mission of serving as a link between the ivory tower and the smoke-filled political backroom and main street. Others at the K-School agree; no one has anything but praise for Mitropoulos's and Moore's efforts. "The relationship between the school and the Forum has been a healthy one," says Ira Jackson '70, associate dean of the K-School, adding that, "The activities that go on there provoke intellectual curiosity and broadly disseminate information. The Forum also provides a psychological bond...
...goes a long way toward unraveling the mystery of the Minnesota Fritz. In his unusually candid and balanced portrait, Mondale emerges as a man of unusually good political fortune who knows how to take advantage of the many opportunities that roll his way. Clearly he is a specialist in backroom politics, and that may account for the fact that he was appointed to nearly every significant post he has held. His liberal idealism is tempered by a well-developed sense of political self-preservation; he knows when to shut up. He would rather compromise and build a coalition of moderates...
...final step--toward garnering the 997 delegate votes neccessary to clinch the Republican nomination or the 1666 delegates needed to become the Democratic nominee. But June 3 is a long way off, especially in the world of presidential politics. Even more remote are the speeches, slogans, revelling and backroom politicking of the July Republican national convention in Detroit and the August Democratic encore in Madison Square Garden. With dozens of primaries and caucuses between now and then, November seems awfully far away...
...other side of the "Clean for Gene" coin was a nervous sense of truce that hung over the New Hampshire campaign. In backroom late night talks at the Wayfarer there was no shortage of McCarthy staffers who said this would probably be their final trip "within the system." There were some who didn't mind admitting that, personally, they'd rather throw firebombs or get heavy into dope--but they were attracted by the drama, the sheer balls, of McCarthy's "hopeless challenge...
...Flanked by Wife Tammy, baby-faced Jim Bakker, 40, implores his 213-TV-station audience on the PTL Club,* a Charlotte, N.C., clone of the 700 Club, to write President Carter and their Congressmen protesting "bureaucratic backroom harassment." Referring to a Federal Communications Commission probe of PTL finances, Bakker segues into a half-hour documentary on the club, the narration donated by Actor Efrem Zimbalist...