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More than 650 people turned out for yesterday;s Kennedy caucus, held in East Cambridge's Kennedy public school. The Carter caucus held in East Boston drew only 150, and 35 supporters of California Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr. gathered in Cambridge's Tobin School, organizers of those meetings said...
Bush, who narrowly won last month's Iowa caucus, said that even if he defeats former California Gov. Ronald Reagan in the New Hampshire face-off, Reagan will not be finished. "Reagan has latent strength in the West," he said...
Shortly after 7 p.m., the caucus-goers begin arriving, half an hour early. Every seat is soon taken and still people are streaming in. Kalal announces that the caucus is moving to larger quarters in the basement of the Methodist Church a block away. Once there, Kalal starts looking for an outlet for his projector in back of the dark oak podium. But nowhere is there a three-prong outlet. Kalal, slightly ruffled, dispatches someone to find a blackboard. "I'll have to play this by ear," he says, opening the meeting. "I'm Jim Kalal, your temporary...
...otherwise entertained the Iowans with their big-city naiveté. A television news producer in Dallas called the Des Moines Register and asked, "Where do we find the pigs and corn? And can we cab there?" One reporter asked the state Democratic committee to help him find a caucus held in a small town fire station with a potbelly stove and a Dalmatian. "We said we could get him a fire station in a small town," said Sarah Herold, the party's press liaison, "but he would have to supply the dog and the stove." State Republican Chairman Stephen...
...even some of the most cynical press-plane veterans expressed surprise at how friendly they found the home folks. In Ames (pop. 44,000), a West German television documentary crew was awarded the keys to the city. In Harlan, TIME Correspondent Madeleine Nash was quietly observing a precinct caucus when somebody announced her presence to the audience, which applauded warmly. Occasional requests for off-the-record or deep-background treatment notwithstanding, most Iowans seemed to be eager interview subjects. Says David Yepsen of the Des Moines Register: "People are civil here. If someone comes up and talks...