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...deserves to be taken seriously in any informed speculation about 1980. For those who are unfamiliar with the background of the 40-year-old man from Colorado, Hart was a regional coordinator for Robert Kennedy '48 in 1968 and in 1972 managed the successful bid of Sen George McGovern (D-S.D.) for the Democratic presidential nomination. In 1974 Hart upset incumbent conservative Sen. Peter Dominick (R-Colo.) to become a United States Senator. Since coming to the Senate, Hart has demonstrated both his liberalism and his belief that being a U.S. Senator ought not be one's life-long...
Ever since Senator George McGovern and his supporters began to downgrade the role of party bosses and officials in the nomination of presidential candidates, Democrats have voiced increasing concern about the primary process. There was the perennial fear that it was too drawn out, with state caucuses and primaries spread over as many as five months. Increasingly too, it seemed chaotic, with many candidates splintering state delegate votes. Now, after two years of study, a 58-member Democratic Party commission, headed by Michigan's state chairman, Morley Winograd, has proposed a set of reforms that would make campaigns somewhat...
...newcomers, however, do not want to stay around even half that long. Says Gary Hart of Colorado, a first-term Senator: "Many members come in here having already done something interesting; they think about doing this only for a while, then doing something different." Hart, 40, who was George McGovern's campaign manager in 1972, is thinking about challenging Carter for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1980. Senator John Danforth, a freshman Republican from Missouri, calls himself "a citizen on leave to the Government." Some oldtimers regard the career switchers as unprofessional. Louisiana Democrat Lindy Boggs, who was elected...
...transition from prankster on the Potomac to savant on the Seine was a while in the making. After Kennedy was assassinated, Salinger lost election to a Senate seat from California; bounced around a few uncongenial executive suites in the U.S., England and France; and helped manage George McGovern's 1972 presidential campaign. After that debacle, he fled to France, jobless. Publisher Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber immediately hired him for L'Express in 1973, shortly before the Watergate story broke. Salinger's ability to make that long and intricate crisis comprehensible to a nation of Cartesians...
...strike drags on any longer. For the workers, living on a $30 a week union allowance, the weeks ahead and the upcoming holiday season leave little to be thankful for. For the students, more weeks of the strike mean more discomfort and disruption of their educations. Sen. George McGovern (D.S.D.) and Secretary of Labor Ray Marshall have acted wisely in cancelling speeches at Yale recently, to avoid crossing union picket lines; that students were unable to hear them is the fault of the unyielding Yale administration...