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...professional Mondale and Glenn organizations, McGovern is relying on a close-meshed, down-home team to propel him into his desired third or fourth place in New Hampshire. The man who runs the machine, George Cunningham, also ran McGovern's two congressional and five senatorial campaigns. A fellow South Dakotan, Cunningham first met the candidate in 1954, working side-by-side with McGovern in South Dakota's Young Democrats organization. He hasn't left the Senator's side since. "George McGovern and I go back a long way, to common roots and experience in the same state," Cunningham says...
...faces are different, though not very: the macho Texan on CBS, the winsome South Dakotan on NBC and the urbane Canadian on ABC are all white, lean and youthfully middleaged; all part their dark, wavy hair on the left. They do vary somewhat in manner: Dan Rather of CBS is intense, Tom Brokaw of NBC is quick to laugh or lament, and Peter Jennings of ABC is elegantly detached. The newscasts that they anchored last week, in heavily promoted head-to-head competition, were almost exactly alike, not only in content but in specific imagery...
...patiently give substance and shape to the world's most protean political and cultural organism. The standardization of urban skylines, the mailing of the suburbs and monotoning of news barely begin to smooth out the stubborn differences that define each region of the country. Pennsylvanian Peirce and North Dakotan Hagstrom count eight discrete sections: Mid-Atlantic, New England, Great Lakes, Border South, Deep South, Great Plains, Mountain, and Pacific, which includes Alaska, an area so large that it embraces four time zones...
...chance just to talk. "I've been under a lot of pressure for the last twenty years," he says. "So for at least the next two years, I don't want to be on a schedule, to be tied down to anything." That explains why the South Dakotan turned down several prestigious job offers after November, including the chancellorship of the University of Massachusetts system. McGovern is satisfied for now writing articles and lecturing on politics once a week at Louisiana State New Orleans...
...native North Dakotan, the rugged, soft-spoken L'Amour feels that his popularity comes from the same wellsprings that brought Ronald Reagan to prominence: "They say the cowboy is a dead, romantic figure. But there's a little cowboy in all of us, a little frontier. People don't want to go back to those days, but they want to go halfway back. Their problems are too big now, they can't solve them, people want action, positive values. If you think about it, that was what they were saying on Nov. 4. Those...