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...nation's registered Democrats and 6% of Democratic county chairmen prefer him over the other potential Democratic candidates. His camp abounds with "Kennedy men": Advisers Arthur Schlesinger Jr. and John Kenneth Galbraith, Robert Kennedy's Press Secretary Frank Mankiewicz, Writers Richard Goodwin and Adam Walinsky, plus other lesser-known figures. President Kennedy's Press Secretary Pierre Salinger will be coming aboard early next year. McGovern himself was John Kennedy's Food for Peace director. Moreover, McGovern's posi-tion on the Democratic left is about where Ted Kennedy would be expected...
...cosmetics, chemicals, highway construction, paper, banking and mutual funds. Her Postal Market Italiana is the country's first and largest mail-order house. Because she juggles her portfolio constantly, it is difficult to estimate Anna's net worth. She and her husband Giuseppe Bolchini, a respected but lesser-known financier, pay taxes on an income of $800,000 a year...
...hardhats," she says, "they're my kind of people." One TV station offered her seven opportunities to debate her lesser-known opponents, Black Lawyer David Nelson and State Senator John Moakley; she refused, counting on the public's memory of where she stood. She won with 39% of the vote, and may run for mayor of Boston next year...
Auden, who is now 63, has always been a cultural gamesman. Word schemes, puzzles and categories delight him. There are entries for acronyms, angelology, mnemonics, numbers, foreign phrase books. Always a zealous listmaker, he has included long entries of little-known names for woodpeckers and cuckoos and even lesser-known names for the human genitals (17 for the male and a lavish 28 for the female), as well as a wealth of arcane anecdote. Flipping to "Anagrams," for instance, the reader finds the story of a 17th century British eccentric named Eleanor Audley who, having plucked REVEALE O DANIEL...
...painters' helpers struggle. All four were active leaders of SDS. Less than a month later, four active members of NAC received the brunt of the CRR's discipline for "intensely and personally harrassing Dean May," who was speaking through a bullhorn to OBU occupants of University Hall. Scores of lesser-known radicals also took part in that harrassment...