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...other left-of-center candidates drop out. One of these is John Lindsay. As Johnny-come-lately to the party, Lindsay must score a number of primary upsets to have a chance at the nomination. He is zeroing in on three: Florida, Wisconsin and Massachusetts. Another rival is Shirley Chisholm. She is putting her limited funds where they will do the most good: among black voters in Florida and North Carolina. Her best bet is the last primary, in New York. Eugene McCarthy does not look strong anywhere. He will pose much more of a threat after Miami when...
...endorsement of the great majority of county leaders and other key political figures. His liberalism helps him in New York City, while his New England image wins friends upstate. Humphrey, if properly fortified by earlier primary victories, could give him trouble. Jackson has some strength upstate and Chisholm among blacks in the cities. But here, again, Muskie looks like the winner...
...SHIRLEY CHISHOLM. Cheerfully oblivious to the fact that she has no chance whatsoever of winning the nomination, she delivers her appeals on behalf of blacks and women in exuberant, defiant rhetoric. A petite bundle of energy, she is as facile a speaker as Muskie is ponderous. She has no hesitation about bruising the male ego. "I'm looking to no man walking this earth for approval of what I'm doing," she assured one rally. Her husband Conrad is introduced as the "future first gentleman." Such is the intensity of her emotions on the stump that she told...
...preview peep at Washington under a woman President was provided by Manhattan Democratic Representative Bella Abzug at a conference of the National Organization for Women. "President Shirley Chisholm," she said, fantasizing freely, "is seriously concerned about the rising adult male delinquency rate, especially among retired Defense Department officials and Pentagon generals. The President is thinking about instituting some play-therapy groups, in which they could work out their aggressive feelings. Anti-machismo Secretary Gloria Steinem proposed that we convert the Pentagon into housing for the elderly and play centers." Later, Congresswoman Abzug reported in her dream of the future...
Graham is chairman of Chisholm's Massachusetts campaign. Cambridge Mayor Barbara Ackermann is also on the Chisholm steering committee