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That recent claim by Miami Beach Mayor Jay Dermer did not endear him to the owners of the city's luxury hotels, who proudly advertise their beaches as private and even hire guards to chase away non-guests. Beachgoers in other parts of the U.S. may also be skeptical. As many of them have learned this summer, the beaches are not always open to all. In fact, more and more resort towns now boast beach laws that effectively bar anyone but a resident...
Similarly, 94 of Michigan's 96 votes are expected to be solidly arrayed for the Vice President. While McCarthy will doubtless inherit pockets of delegate strength formerly pledged to Kennedy, the Minnesotan's unorthodox style does not endear him to Democratic party professionals, who have tended to favor either Kennedy or Humphrey. With the important primaries over, the search for delegates will shift from the polls to political clubhouses-an uncongenial environment for the professorial Senator...
...Californian found a congenial environment in the clubbish Senate, but he was never very careful about looking after his political fences at home, where he was often more popular with Democrats than with Republicans. Nor did his refusal to support the campaigns of Barry Goldwater, Reagan and Murphy endear him to California G.O.P. workers...
During his campaign, Huong indicated that he would be willing to sit down and negotiate with the Viet Cong's National Liberation Front if he were certain that it would assure "genuine peace and freedom" for South Viet Nam. Those sentiments do not endear him to Ky and his followers, who are far more fretful than Thieu about the U.S.-North Vietnamese negotiations in Paris. Ky, in fact, was off in Nha Trang when Thieu changed Premiers last week, a fact that led Saigon's hyperactive gossip mills to conclude that Ky might decide to plot a coup...
Opinions like these are not likely to endear' Dickey to certain academic coteries. Such people are also annoyed at the crashingly bourgeois publicity campaign that seems to accompany him wherever he goes. (Dickey has had the full Life magazine treatment, with photographs of him in his various uniforms.) More to the point, his critics deplore the occasional unrevised look of his poems--and certainly he can be, at times, both prolix and dull. Some would call him tasteless, but after all, tastes differ...