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...economy. The lights whirred and the bells changed, and the Young Democrats were bemoaning not a lack but an overabundance of "good" candidates. But when the straw vote was held on the morning of the convention's last day, the delegates expressed a clear preference for President: Birch Bayh, U.S. Senator from Indiana...
...Bayh's free play came in the next day's headlines--the first and (so far) only major publicity of his campaign (not counting the Harvard Independent). His organization had been gearing up for months, however, and included such high-powered figures as Ann Lewis of Massachusetts, former special assistant to Major Kevin White and sister to State Rep. Barney Frank. Bayh's Indiana senatorial margins have always been slim, but he has been working since before 1972 to create a national constituency. An early and effective Nixon foe, Bayh led the opposition to the Haynesworth and Carswell Supreme Court...
Even with these credentials, however Bayh was a surprise winner over second-place Mo Udall and third-place Jimmy Carter. The Indiana delegation had done little or no campaigning, while the Tennessee and Georgia delegates had plastered Carter's craggy smile all over walls, chairs, and their own chests, and the Arizona Young Democrats had hosted a crowded free-breakfast-with-Udall just before the vote. What seems to have made the campaigning irrelevant was the highly disproportionate number of delegates allowed from the different states...
...motion picture industry's Jack Valenti moved to the tennis courts. He perfected something he called "a top-spin backhand," and not even Jaws gave him the thrill he got from beating Presidential Contenders Birch Bayh and Lloyd Bentsen. It may be an indication of political things to come. One of the world's famous lawyers, Edward Bennett Williams, called the unusual calm "a return to abnormality." His view is that the bizarre has become the norm and such letdowns as we are now experiencing will continue to be the unusual...
Texas has moved to toughen its standards for juvenile homes. Still, Bayh's committee wants to frame federal laws that will tighten up regulations nationwide and end the use of what the Senator calls "chemical Straitjackets...