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...black militance, says the Rev. Jesse Jackson, head of Chicago's Operation Breadbasket, the nation's press was like an electrocardiogram, recording every spasm. Recently Jackson fought unsuccessfully through the courts to win a place on the ballot in a mayoral election against Chicago's Richard Daley. Currently Operation Breadbasket and other black organizations are laboring all over the U.S. to give black Americans an increased measure of economic control of their lives. And journalists, Jackson justly complains, have largely neglected these legal and less flamboyant, but in the long run potentially more significant movements...
...good old "Abe" Muskie is reported to be the favorite of the LBJ-Mayor Daley-John Connally axis of the Democratic Party. Texans Johnson and Connally understand oil-and I'm sure Muskie is willing to learn...
McCARTHY'S campaign ground to a halt in Chicago. A combination of the Johnson-Daley political axis and McCarthy's own bumbling, Quixotic personal style combined to create the debacle in Chicago. The only man who came out of the Democratic convention in 1968 looking even remotely human was George McGovern, whose candidacy provided an umbrella for Kennedy supporters, sick at the thought of Humphrey yet turned off by a lackluster McCarthy...
Henson, like a Roman gladiator, gazed at the Harvard bench awaiting a thumbs up or down verdict to determine the fate of his foe. Unfortunately, the bench had either advanced past this type of ancient strategy or was undecided on whether Daley should be put away, and offered no response...
During the communication breakdown. Daley managed to improve his position by rolling onto his stomach. The maneuver soon was erased as Henson put him back on his back. To the strains of "quit screwing' around, Henson," he then proceeded to pin Daley...