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VERMONT. Thomas P. Salmon, 40, started out with what looked like three strikes against him when he launched his campaign against Luther F. Hackett, 39, a tightfisted conservative protege of retiring Governor Deane C. Davis. Salmon is a Democrat, a Catholic and an admitted McGovern man. But he is also a widely respected attorney, an attractive shirtsleeves campaigner with an enthusiastic following, and a protege of former (1963-69) Governor Philip Hoff, the only other Democrat to reach the Vermont statehouse in this century. Salmon's upstream campaign began to turn into an upset when his charge that...
...McGovern won the primary with a massive grassroots organization, little attention has been given to the McGovern media operation which is one of the most extensive in history. McGovern travels with at least eight full-time press people, ranging from his press secretary, Dick Doughrety, to "media mothers" Polly Hackett and Carol Freedenberg...
...Polly Hackett and Carol Freedenberg, the McGovern media mothers, have the sole responsibility of making sure that the press is kept aware. They travel on the buses with reporters, flirt with them, serve drinks and give out the releases that Doughrety and his staff write. When Doug Kneeland of The New York Times wants to know when he can get the name of a city where McGovern will be giving a speech later in the evening on national T.V., Hackett and Freedenberg will have to find...
Jaimie (Scott Jacoby) is a ten-year-old kid with a chart-shattering IQ who nurtures a selfish affection for his mother and yearns for his deceased father, a TIME editor who had always wanted to write a novel. Jaimie's mother Christine (Joan Hackett) makes quite a nice living, thank you, running a small gallery on Madison Avenue. She and Jaimie are great chums until she meets a whimsical New York tour guide named Peter Simon (Robert Klein). Peter woos her by parking his Volkswagen bus on a wharf and regaling her with tales of his childhood...
...bouts between stepfather and stepson are a variety of clumsily contrived flashbacks covering every conceivable area of Jaimie's early development, from parental arguments to toilet training. None of this succeeds in making the hysterically melodramatic conclusions any more convincing. There are, for all this, good performances by Hackett and Jacoby, and a couple of nice, edgy encounters between Jaimie and Peter, most notably one in which they meet for the first time. "Please don't tell me I'm old for my age," Jaimie wearily replies to a bit of elementary flattery. Peter tries...