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...Dwyer's defeat in November. Though still in its formative stages, the Coalition for the Politics of the People hopes to become an issue-oriented reformist coalition in a state which has seen too many reform movements and many abortive coalitions. Stephen Smith, Paul O'Dwyer, Allard K. Lowenstein, and Percy Sutton are among the men to watch...
...Minneapolis last weekend a group of about fifteen prominent anti-Administration politicians met to try to tie together what has happened since the convention and what might come about in the future. Among them were a few of the new stars of 1968 like Allard K. Lowenstein, the New Yorker who founded the Dump Johnson campaign and put together a McCarthy-dominated Coalition for an Open Convention last summer with some Kennedy support, Julian Bond of Georgia, and Donald O. Peterson, the Wisconsin delegation chairman who refused to buckle under to Mayor Daley...
Others are working to take over the party and remake it to their own specifications. New Hampshire's David Hoeh, New York's Al Lowenstein, Georgia's Julian Bond and Wisconsin's Donald Peterson, who talked himself hoarse making McCarthyite motions at the convention, are hoping eventually to gain control of the party machinery through the New Democratic Coalition, headquartered in Minneapolis...
...clear how many demonstrators of various stripe will appear in Chicago during convention week. The National Mobilization Committee estimates it will attract 100,000. Allard Lowenstein said he expects the Coalition for an Open Convention to attract 150,000. Many small coordinating centers are being set up in Chicago, but most are along ideological rather than geographical lines...
...Wednesday, seats in the amphitheater are filled early. Convention Chairman Thruston Morton gavels the delegates to order. Ted Kennedy strides to the platform, and after a frenetic ten-minute ovation nominates Nelson Rockefeller for President. After an hour's floor demonstration, Allard Lowenstein, chairman of the New York delegation, moves that the delegates nominate Rockefeller by acclamation, and the delegates respond without a single dissenting vote...