Word: mccloskey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When housewives chatter over mid-morning coffee at the Rexall drugstore in postcard-pretty New London, N.H., or their husbands banter beside their ailing cars at Kidder's Garage, there is little talk of Muskie, McGovern or McCloskey. Instead, there are complaints over rising taxes expected from a new sewage system and the costs of operating schools. In the paper-mill town of Berlin, Kelly's Pastry Shop now sells more doughnuts (7?) than turnovers (150?, as residents worry about living costs. "It takes two working now for a family to get what it needs," notes Mrs. Laura...
Minuet. The frustration over Viet Nam ought to help such antiwar candidates as Democrat George McGovern and Republican Pete McCloskey. But McGovern backers have had difficulty getting local students to work hard for their man. "I think these kids are into not being radical now," explains Frances Bennotti, a McGovern worker manning a campus campaign table in Durham. Nor does the issue necessarily hurt Nixon. Dick Allison, a tram conductor at the Cannon Mountain ski area, lost a cousin in Viet Nam. He considers the war a tragic mistake, but defends the Administration's pace of withdrawal...
...been concentrated on the Democrats. They have paid scant heed to President Nixon's two rivals on the Republican side, a brace of U.S. Representatives who differ drastically in ideology but otherwise turn out to have a good deal in common. They are California's Paul ("Pete") McCloskey, 44, a Kennedy-esque Marine Reserve colonel who wants the U.S. out of Viet Nam at once, and Ohio's John Ashbrook, 43, a deep-dyed conservative who deplores Nixon's "leftward drift" on welfare, China, Keynesian deficits and in the U.S.-Soviet armaments race. Neither, however...
...transportation to New Hampshire is available for those who wish to work there this weekend for McGovern or McCloskey...
...McCloskey bus leaves at 5 p.m. tomorrow. There will be a special meeting at 8 p.m. tonight in the Quincy JCR for those who wish to work for McCloskey this weekend. Transportation and lodging are free for McCloskey volunteers...