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...ELECTION FORECAST: Fifteen years ago, I was in Kozani in northern Greece. I made a speech, and after that I went around the town square. An old man of about 80 years with a grand white beard came up and kissed me. I asked him, "What is your forecast for the results of the election?" He said, "My boy, the ballot box is like a pregnant woman. She's full, and you do not know what is going to be born, a boy or a girl...
THERE MUST HAVE been times between the Dita Beard escapade and Wounded Knee--stories in which Whitten played a key role--when he wearily concluded that they knew no limits. And those must have been the times when The Alchemist was written. Whitten does not seriously intend to reveal the power-broking behind the scenes--he only wants to tell a story beside which real government seems reasonable. The Alchemist is a diversion, and no thinly-disguised characters have set Washington astir...
RHODE ISLAND. The candidate who accomplished the most with the least amount of help undoubtedly was an ingenuous and indefatigable maverick named Edward P. Beard, 34, who upset Democratic Congressman Robert Tiernan. The party's man and a nine-year congressional veteran, Tiernan was so confident that he did not even bother to campaign until the last two weeks...
...late. For months, Beard, a house painter, had been running flat-out, exploiting the same beguiling tactics that had created a wellspring of voter support and vaulted him into the state legislature in 1972. Beard used a few radio spots-written by himself #151;but mainly he walked around shaking hands and displaying homemade campaign signs. He stumped Rhode Island's crowded beaches so diligently that sunburn sidelined him for a few days. "I'm nobody's man but the people's," Beard would say, proclaiming his honesty, his solidarity with his fellow workingman...
...Beard's victory over Tiernan-23,787 votes to 22,025-left him with just $40 in his pocket. His annual salary as a painter is now $9,000 (he gets $300 extra as a state legislator), but he can look forward to receiving a raise to $42,500 next year. In a zealously Democratic district, Beard is favored to win in November over Vincent Rotondo, the little-known Republican candidate...