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...expected Nixon took the Rocky Mountain State with an overwhelming 65 per cent of the vote. Incumbent Republican Senator Gordon Allott was in trouble because of a surprisingly strong showing by Democrat Floyd Haskell...
...checking into Eagleton's medical history, which had been the subject of countless convention-time rumors. But McGovern listened to the only people who had a vested interest in minimizing the importance of the Eagleton crisis--Eagleton himself and the convention name checkers, Frank Mankiewicz and Gordon Well, who had earlier been responsible for briefing McGovern on the $1000 grant scheme. And they told him that McGovern listened to the architects of disaster, and pledged his 1000 per cent support to Eagleton...
...lack of commitment, personal frustration, or changing demands on their day-to-day schedules. The decentralization of PBH contributes to a certain anomie among volunteers which probably contributes to the Tran science of PBH membership; few can envision PBH's operation in its entirety, and, according to Barry Gordon '70, PBH's graduate secretary. "A lot of people haven't thought all that much about why they're here...
...trend in PBH planning is toward programs for service in the community which, by serving groups and individuals, directly address the issue of "human rights" about which Gordon speaks. The South End Low Cost Housing Committee renovates abandoned South End buildings for low and middle-income families. The Columbia Point Program provides recreational activities and educational enrichment for disadvantaged children. None of these explicitly aim toward the overthrow of existing social structures, but all seek to improve the quality of people's lives and extend to them the tools necessary for individual survival and community participation...
What's most insidious about the enterprise is that the physical authenticity, and the elegiac tone of the music and photography (sepia-tinged by the talented Gordon Wills), persuades people that this is a sincere attempt to recapture history. The case is actually simpler. Once more Hollywood entertainers are projecting their own barren sensibilities on the past...