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Around 7:30 the following evening, 24 hours after the empty bus had been found, a startled watchman at a gravel quarry near Livermore, 100 miles northwest of Chowchilla, saw a bedraggled group-all in their underwear-approaching him. The kidnaping victims had been found, and all were well...
...Kennedy. There are only seven or eight real liberals in the Senate. Me, Kennedy, Humphrey, and a few others." McGovern? we asked. "Yeah. McGovern too. And [Sen. Mike] Gravel [D.-Alaska]. But the country is very conservative right now. Don't you think so?" Who did he think would win the Democratic nomination for president in 1972, we asked. "Senator Humphrey, I hope...
...Look at us, look at what we have!" cries Pancho, 28, waving his arms as he speaks. One hand slams against the low-hung tar-paper roof of the dirt-floor shack he rents on the edge of a gravel pit in the hills above Mexico City. Sometimes he gets a day's work in the gravel pit for $6.40, but it is not regular work. His wife, Manuela, earns $45 a month as a maid. Their six-month-old son lies sleeping on the family...
...scandal threatened to touch still others in Washington. At week's end Gardner said that in 1972 or '73 she had stumbled upon Alaska Democratic Senator Mike Gravel making love to Ray on a houseboat owned by former Congressman Kenneth Gray of Illinois, Ray's ex-boss. Gravel denied the accusation. Meanwhile, Ray preened in a strange celebrity status that made her seem a combination of Virginia Hill and Typhoid Mary. She attracted stares and journalists at every stop. But when she showed up at Duke Zeibert's last week, at least...
...Hutchinson, who at 24 looks like one of the painters of Tom Sawyer's fence, spoke of Tennessee Governor Ray Blanton being the key to that state's uncommitted bloc and the chances he would deliver its nine delegates. There was talk about Alaska's Mike Gravel endorsing, and the need to work on Hawaii Senator Dan Inouye. Perhaps Georgia Senator Herman Talmadge, a close friend of Inouye, would help there, one of the young men suggested. North Carolina Senator Bob Morgan was already working on the Wallace delegates in his state...