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Chinese cooking, exercise-cum-dance classes and tennis dinner parties at indoor courts. Even many political activists are more interested in other things. Philadelphia's Mary Hurtig, a delegate to the Democratic National Convention, said that at three different parties over a single weekend "we all found ourselves talking about King Kong, Network and Rocky." Added Hurtig: "Maybe we're just being realistic. Maybe we know this time that we are not likely to see huge changes...
...Well, there was not one that I didn't like." If Jimmy is elected and they move to Washington, she said, they would put their daughter Amy, 8, in the public school system, which is almost entirely black, if "the security thing can be worked out." Said Mary Hurtig, a Udall delegate from Philadelphia: "That really blew my mind. Wow! The President's little girl in a city public school. What a fine example...
...Hurtig first heard Udall last year at an Americans for Democratic Action dinner. "He was witty, so human," she recalls. "He gave me an awareness that the '60s were really over, things have changed, and the times of plenty are gone." Conveying that affection in her sprawling district is difficult. The area is more than 60% black, and many of the blacks seem committed...
...Hurtig and Reid campaign together. The pictures on their campaign flyer feature Udall with Charles Bowser, a black political leader who is opposed to Rizzo and supports Udall. But as Hurtig and Reid approach shoppers at a supermarket, it becomes clear from the response that Udall would need months, rather than days, to make a dent in Philadelphia. Moreover, the Udall apparatus in the city is tiny and contentious...
Each night Hurtig and Reid call at least five friends, asking each to call five others. They use lists from the 1972 McGovern campaign, in which they met. They give neighborhood children quarters for distributing leaflets. When they consider their prospects realistically, they console themselves with the knowledge that every vote they get is a blow against the local machine and an assist to Udall's survival beyond the Pennsylvania primary...