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...seriously weakened by the fuzziness charge, his "ethnic purity" gaffe, and, to some extent, by his image as the Democratic front-runner, Carter still managed to win the nomination without establishing--or at least emphasizing--definitive stands on particular issues. One notable exception. Carter's belated endorsement of the Humphrey-Hawkins bill illustrates a major weakness of the so-called "issues-oriented" campaigns with which the Carter candidacy has so frequently been contrasted...
...furor that surrounded Carter's initial refusal to endorse the Humphrey-Hawkins bill was a classic case of the confusion of issues with programs designed to address them--a syndrome to which any "issues-oriented" campaign is susceptible. The problem begins with candidates' reduction of the issue-program relationship to the level of a simple "if...then..." statement: if you favor a reduction in unemployment, then you should support Humphrey-Hawkins. Under the rules of logic, a statement's contrapositive must also hold true, and if Jimmy Carter did not endorse Humphrey-Hawkins, then, so the argument runs, he must...
...Democratic cloakroom just off the Senate floor, Hubert Humphrey cracked, "Segretti did it. It had to be one of the dirty-trick guys.'' Los Angeles Times Cartoonist Paul Conrad lost not a second in sketching a lascivious Jimmy Carter fantasizing over the Statue of Liberty-undraped. A Californian just back from a trip winked at his wife and announced: "I've got that Jimmy Carter feeling...
TIME has learned that Nixon himself phoned Lady Bird Johnson to express his dismay at the candidate's gratuitous slap at her late husband, an action reminiscent of less serious barbs Carter has hurled in the past at Humphrey, George Wallace and Edward Kennedy. Carter quickly called Mrs. Johnson to emphasize that he admired her husband and had spoken favorably of him elsewhere in the interview, but did not apologize, according to intimates of L.B.J.'s widow. Lady Bird described herself through an aide as "hurt and perplexed." The timing could hardly have been worse. Rosalynn Carter...
Dance Collective (October 8-9, December 3-4) and Dance Circle's Dorothy Hershkowitz (January 6-8) offer more traditional style modern dance. Concert Dance Co. sticks to well-done classics, and this season will add Anna Sokolow's Session for Six to their repertoire of Doris Humphrey, Bill Evans and Phobe Neville. Good for taking a friend who's never seen modern dance...