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...Jersey, 71 ... California, 271 ... Last week, in the final phase of the spring primary season, George McGovern's sleek and improbable juggernaut rolled through New York. As the votes were counted, McGovern stood amid his euphoric supporters in Manhattan's Biltmore Hotel, his thin hair flecked with confetti, his tanned face creased with a wide, white grin. "SOUTH DAKOTA wow," proclaimed one cardboard sign. In his flat, prairie tones, McGovern said calmly; "I'm convinced we will now win the nomination in Miami Beach...
...best work, an effortless and lovely cloud of confetti about the decline of the sweet, the good and the pure, was called Trout Fishing in America. The main character was Trout Fishing itself-among the cleanest and most refreshing combinations of words in English. Unfortunately, this personification of a peerless gerund suffered a surrealistic metamorphosis that included its becoming a pen point, a legless alcoholic and a dinner companion of Maria Callas. At the end, Trout Fishing wound up in a junkyard as a used stream, for sale by the foot...
...campaign began with bumps for Correspondent John Austin. Covering the early phase of Richard Nixon's nomination quest, Austin was struck in the head by a 5-lb. package of confetti at a Chicago rally. Then, as he tried to keep up with a Nixon motorcade in San Francisco, he was hit by a police motorcycle. He took his wife to one political event, at Madison Square Garden. She made it through the police line easily without official credentials; he was detained, though he wore the laminated press card issued to newsmen only after they passed a federal security...
...approach of a presidential year," says Fentress. "Everything becomes timed and tooled for Election Day. The rumors get wilder than usual and the ante is raised in that perpetual con game between reporter and news source." The election is 14 wearying months off and there will be plenty of confetti, motorcycles and other hazards along the way. But for those who cover and write about politics, happy times are here again...
...cellar of a pub, a provisional spoke of the hatred for the British "army of occupation." "In the beginning our only weapons were 'Belfast confetti'-rivets, bottles and stones-but now we have guns and plenty of ammunition. And I'll tell you this: we won't be wild geese [exiles] no more. We are going to fight this through till...