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...Crimson, which dominated the game despite the loss, according to inside right Tony Custer, mounted several threats during the game but never managed to score...
...Andover field is very small and uneven, and the best offense to play on it is to boot a long shot down the field and run, Custer said...
LAST BOOKS READ: Custer Died for Your Sins, Kissinger: The Uses of Power, and Dick and Jane's Big Score...
Dismay. If McGovern thought that those firm words would be the end of it, he was badly mistaken. Almost at once, the Furies descended. The telephones and news tickers at McGovern's temporary headquarters in Custer, S. Dak., quickly relayed the anger and dismay of key Democrats round the U.S. McGovern's finance chiefs, already facing a red-ink campaign, winced in despair. Editorialists let go their thunderbolts, crying for Eagleton to quit the ticket. McGovern calmly stayed put in South Dakota. Eagleton, at first shaken, gained strength through a hectic week of campaigning in California and Hawaii...
...this-the editorials, the party pros, his own senior staff-led McGovern to buckle late last week. On Friday afternoon he telephoned Jules Witcover of the Los Angeles Times at the Hi-Ho Motel in Custer. McGovern invited Witcover to his cabin for an hour-and-a-half interview. Witcover's lengthy piece conveyed McGovern's message: public reaction to the disclosure of Eagleton's past health problems has been so negative that Eagleton must withdraw -voluntarily. McGovern told Witcover that he was confident of Eagleton's capacity to be President, but that Eagleton...