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...McGovern and McGovern watchers, it was the best of weeks and the worst of weeks. Nothing is harder to cover than uncertainty-so TIME reporters covered just about everybody. Neil MacNeil bird-dogged McGovern through every between-vote interlude in the Senate lobbies, found him and Hubert Humphrey almost guiltily sneaking off to the "neutral office" of the Secretary of the Senate. MacNeil learned from Connecticut Senator Abraham Ribicoff that McGovern had called one morning at near dawn to ask him to intercede with Ted Kennedy, then had called back an hour later to offer the job to Ribicoff himself...
...leaving the Senate chamber separately, taking different routes through various doors eventually leading to the Secretary's office, Room S-224. Once their timing was bad and, emerging from different doors, they collided and laughed sheepishly. "Woops!" said Humphrey. The ritual was observed by TIME'S Neil MacNeil, who asked Humphrey if he had been offered second place. "We are talking about some matters of mutual interest," beamed Humphrey. Actually, he had been asked and was firmly declining...
...photographers. We come to know them on a first name basis only: Danny, Stefan, Jim & Ron, Jack, Bill, Larry, Tony, Nicko. Photographer Rosalyn Gerstein brings us "Betty on the Beach", rather plump and enjoying the ocean up to her ankles with a few lady friends. Wendy S. MacNeil shows Elizabeth Saltonstall kindly staring at us with her heritage eyes. Lee Post found four young and Lolitaesque Cambridge girls giving different renditions of the sexiest pose. Lawson Corbett's "Guys will be dolls" showed the transvestite in the dressing room--slick, sexy, and confusing. William M. Burke introduces "Clint", a regular...
Later, Kampelman told TIME'S Neil MacNeil: "We were tempted to juggle the Ohio vote, but it was too risky. South Carolina felt very strongly about it. Governor West felt very strongly. We'd have risked victory on it." Interestingly, the new politicians were much more pragmatic. Although some women, including New York's Bella Abzug, objected angrily to the sacrifice of principle involved in the women's issue, McGovern's men had no qualms about taking the expedient loss. Shirley MacLaine did her best to argue that surely there was no real choice between adding a few women...
...Robert MacNeil of Public...