Word: lowenstein
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...Lowenstein's district headquarters fill the top floor of a rented Rockville Centre office building. Some of the walls in the office are green, some are yellow, and all are dirty and covered with posters. Boards and old newspapers litter the floor. In the back are tables lined with telephones; in the front is a press area with files and photographs of Lowenstein and his family. The ceiling looks like it leaks. A poster on the wall shows Humphrey saying, "Let's Stop Pretending that Mayor Daley Did Anything Wrong in Chicago." There are no HHH buttons in sight...
...Lowenstein finally did endorse Humphrey, announcing his support for the Vice-President immediately after Johnson stopped the bombing...
...failed to endorse him I would have been a hypocrite," Lowenstein said Tuesday. "I had said that I would support him if there was some change in the administration's Vietnam policy. I really had no choice." Many of Lowenstein's student supporters were angry at the move, but none were upset enough to desert their candidate...
...Election Day they handed out sample ballots highlighting Lowenstein's name at the polling places, but they didn't have an easy time of it. In Baldwin one boy was arrested for standing too close to the polling place, even though he was outside the 100-foot marker. The police claimed that the marker was in the wrong place...
...Lowenstein's campaign, which began in March when he was nominated by the Dissident Democrats of Nassau Country, ended at a victory celebration at Karl Hoppl's--a Baldwin restaurant that does most of its business on weddings, bar mitzvahs, and sweet sixteens...