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...organization is not working with the faculty on the campaign. "With Marc Roberts and all the senior members of the faculty to write his position papers they don't need us," Dumont said Friday...
...McGovern leadership at Harvard is not yet well organized. James Dumont '75, the new student coordinator, admitted that "I came into the job by default, it's all Jamie's doing." He also reported a noticeable lack of enthusiasm among some people who had been selected to complete the campaign leadership for the fall. He said that a couple of key people were kind of disappointed" by McGovern's summer performance...
...Dumont now faces a number of additional organizational problems that range in seriousness from the failure of the New York Times to be regularly delivered to his office to an inability to get in touch with the majority of his volunteers. The McGovern office no longer has the current addresses of the volunteers it recruited last year. for most students have moved into different rooms with the new academic year. Dumont and a few volunteers have spent the last week tracking down the new addresses of last year's workers through the various house offices and the University telephone exchange...
However some volunteers did canvass in the North End last weekend Dumont projected that between 30 and 60 workers would show up but less than 20 came each day. Despite the weekend's poor turnout. Dumont was pleased by the freshman response to a table set up at registration two weeks ago. He had his staff collect more than 350 names at that time and on September 26, at a followup meeting in the Freshman Union, over 125 people attended. He also said that tables in the houses for upper class registration attracted about 100 new people...
...sugar obsession" characterized Cuba's new line. Despite warnings of economists that a ten million ton zafra [harvest] in 1970 was unattainable (Dumont argued that 1975 would be a more realistic date for such a goal), Castro made it a matter of honor to fulfill the revolution's goals. Emphasizing political spirit and good will- a factor Karol ignored in his Russia 1930's comparison- the harvest brought temporarily renewed optimism, as any Venceremos will tell you. Yet the cost of the failure was staggering: serious dislocations in the economy resulted because most of the labor force was diverted...