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...York and Wisconsin. He badly flubbed his organizing of Iowa, the first caucus state, and virtually ignored the South. Still, his early start, unflagging drive and shrewd campaigning attracted a good volunteer organization, the backing of Democratic intellectuals like Harvard Professor John Kenneth Galbraith, and many of the old McGovern-McCarthy liberal legions...
...they relish the tension and excitement that builds with early success. As they demonstrated in New Hampshire last week, they are adept at blending the old and new in American politics. They drew heavily on the techniques first used there by Eugene McCarthy in 1968 and sharpened by George McGovern...
...known liberal attorney and civil rights activist (TIME, March 17). Dees and a partner founded a company that sold mail-order books; it was bought by the Los Angeles Times in 1969 for $6 million. In 1972 he used his direct-mail skills to raise $20 million for the McGovern campaign. Late last year he joined the Carter campaign. In five months, Dees nearly tripled the candidate's treasury, to more than $2 million...
CHRIS BROWN, 27, New England Regional Coordinator. A native of Seattle and an expert on the mechanics of campaigning, he was a student organizer for McCarthy in 1968, and was an early co-chairman for McGovern in Seattle four years later. In 1974 he managed Jerry Apodaca's winning gubernatorial campaign in New Mexico. After briefly serving on Apodaca's staff, Brown joined Carter in 1975. Now that the electioneering is moving on to primaries beyond New England, Brown will probably run Carter's campaign in the Western states...
...Professor Richard Gardner. On economic matters, Carter draws on moderate-to-liberal economists, including Joseph Pechman of the Brookings Institution; Albert Somers of the Conference Board, a group of business leaders and economists that makes analyses of U.S. economic policy; and M.I.T.'s Lester Thurow, who advised McGovern during the 1972 campaign...