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Harry J. Willis Concord...
...Ronald Reagan's headquarters in Concord's dingy New Hampshire Highway Hotel, confident aides had chilled several bottles of Almadén blanc de blancs champagne for the expected victory party on primary night. The bottles were never opened. Next morning, as the campaign troupe decamped, Ronald Reagan Jr., 17, and other deflated supporters loaded the bubbly aboard the candidate's chartered Boeing 727-just in case there might be reason for popping their corks in Florida, Illinois or the other hard primaries ahead...
...Stark Room of the New Hampshire Highway Hotel in Concord, cloistered away from the hordes of straw-hat-waving Reagan supporters and robot-like Secret Servicemen below, a prayer meeting was in progress...
...this is supposed to be a democracy," Blessitt said with a thick, Florida swampland accent. "The A.P. and the networks won't tell the people how we're doing. We had a quarter-mile long march in Manchester last week, and 800 people at a rally here in Concord Saturday, and not one news reporter showed up. William Loeb hasn't written one word about us. Just like Concord was blacked out last night [from an electric power failure], we've been blacked out by the media...
Ford has concentrated on some of the larger cities: Manchester, Nashua, Concord and the university town of Durham, counting on the publicity there to reach the more widely scattered Republicans. Though his advance men distributed 15,000 leaflets announcing his airport arrival time in Manchester, only 400 people showed up in the 10° cold to greet him. On a thawing Sunday, on the other hand, Ford lured some 1,000 enthusiastic well-wishers to a cake and coffee reception in Concord. He won strong applause at the University of New Hampshire for his patient and controlled responses...