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...black voters. A lawyer who writes poetry and loves opera, he nevertheless is popular in a tough-talking city where politics is rough. He voted against such technological projects as the ABM and the SST. He succeeded New York's Emanuel Cellar as judiciary chairman last January after Celler was defeated for reelection...
...that stands between the Crimson and the Ivy League fencing celler is Yale. And all that is left to determine who wins the hindspot in the League is today's match...
Candidate Holtzman was probably helped by the fact that she is a McGovern supporter and by an undeniable complacence on the part of Celler backers. The Congressman ruefully noted: "My problem was that I didn't have any problems." But Liz was an attractive candidate in her own right. Born and raised in Brooklyn, she earned a Phi Beta Kappa key at Radcliffe. While a student at law school she went to the South to give legal aid to the civil rights movement, then joined a small New York law firm after graduation. She later worked for Mayor John...
...course, Liz, as she likes to be called, still has a way to go to get to Washington. The vote was so close that both candidates asked that the ballot boxes be impounded before the official tally is announced this week. Even if his opponent is declared the winner, Celler has the option of running on the Liberal Party ticket in November. That makes Miss Holtzman's victory no less dramatic. She beat Celler at what was once his own game: an oldfashioned, hand-pumping, doorbell-ringing street campaign, aided by a determined group of volunteers. What is more...
...campaign was almost purely one of issues -and age. Says Miss Holtzman: "I was a constituent of his, and I never saw him. He never seemed to attend any of the local meetings." With two years as a state committeewoman behind her, Liz Holtzman sailed into Celler, buttonholing anyone who would listen at supermarkets and subway stops. She attacked him on the basis of absenteeism, and pointed out that he did not even keep an office in Brooklyn. She also blanketed the area with copies of a Jack Anderson column that accused Celler of supporting legislation that benefited an electrical...