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...begin a talk to women with such traditional lines as "You lovely ladies" or "What feminine pulchritude." Even the slightest slip of the tongue by the best-meaning male brought swift retribution. At one of the sessions of the Women's Caucus, McGovern was introduced by Liz Carpenter with the compliment: "We are all here because of him." Trying to make a joke, McGovern replied: "The credit should go to Adam." Seeing nothing funny, the women hissed until he pleaded: "Can I recover by saying Adam and Eve?" Shouted an alternate delegate: "Make it Eve and Adam...
Candidate Holtzman was probably helped by the fact that she is a McGovern supporter and by an undeniable complacence on the part of Celler backers. The Congressman ruefully noted: "My problem was that I didn't have any problems." But Liz was an attractive candidate in her own right. Born and raised in Brooklyn, she earned a Phi Beta Kappa key at Radcliffe. While a student at law school she went to the South to give legal aid to the civil rights movement, then joined a small New York law firm after graduation. She later worked for Mayor John...
...course, Liz, as she likes to be called, still has a way to go to get to Washington. The vote was so close that both candidates asked that the ballot boxes be impounded before the official tally is announced this week. Even if his opponent is declared the winner, Celler has the option of running on the Liberal Party ticket in November. That makes Miss Holtzman's victory no less dramatic. She beat Celler at what was once his own game: an oldfashioned, hand-pumping, doorbell-ringing street campaign, aided by a determined group of volunteers. What is more...
...Liz's support came from both sexes. Though she has allied herself with various women's movements, she remains Miss, not Ms., and none of the Women's Caucus "flying squads" appeared in Flatbush to stump for her. The campaign was almost purely one of issues -and age. Says Miss Holtzman: "I was a constituent of his, and I never saw him. He never seemed to attend any of the local meetings." With two years as a state committeewoman behind her, Liz Holtzman sailed into Celler, buttonholing anyone who would listen at supermarkets and subway stops...
...campaign. The club is named after the town in South Dakota where McGovern and his wife Eleanor first met and fell in love. The club's chairman, California Real Estate Dealer Harold Willens, explains that the members have "fallen in love symbolically with George." They include Co-Chairmen Liz Stevens of Washington and Marjorie Benton of Chicago, Xerox Executive Committee Chairman Max Palevsky, Los Angeles Manufacturer Miles Rubin, Actor Warren Beatty, General Motors Heir Stewart Mott, and San Francisco Socialite June Degnan. The members will be invited to attend the Democratic Convention as VIPs, wearing identifying pins. A similar...