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...needs. For far different reasons, Bobby looks on Indiana as the key to his blitzkrieg strategy in the same way that his brother Jack regarded the West Virginia primary in 1960. Jack had to win West Virginia by a big margin to prove that his Roman Catholicism was no handicap in a predominantly Protestant state. Bobby wants to win big in Indiana to prove that he is not merely an urban phenomenon or a prodigy of the Eastern enclave...
...Bobby!" (which has a sexual connotation to some youngsters), and he does. Bobby, 42, can be less formal than Jack, who was also 42 eight years ago but felt that he had to convince voters of his maturity. As Roman Catholicism is no longer a handicap in American politics, neither is relative youth-both thanks to J.F.K...
...McCarthy organization suffers severely from a lack of professionalism. Clark is not a good campaign administrator, and Goodwin, the only man at the top who has been through a presidential campaign before, has given the campaign whatever order it has. Money, strangely enough, is not a very big handicap now. McCarthy's biggest problem for the long run is building a professional staff-and keeping it from Kennedy. Goodwin, a close friend of Bobby's, admits that he is "torn" between the two candidates, and no one would be surprised to see him shift camps after the Wisconsin...
Femininity was not the only handicap overcome by Miss Kivisild. She is the first foreign student (born in Canada) and the first Architectural student elected to the post. She sees her election as a "protest vote", and attributed it to the fact that "no one could connect me with anything political...
...They include Los Angeles' maverick Mayor Samuel Yorty, State Assembly Speaker Jesse Unruh, and perhaps even former Governor Edmund Brown. Not one of them can match Rafferty's turgid prose style-but that, in a long, hard-fought campaign, may prove more of a virtue than a handicap...