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...independent. Forced to run elsewhere, Mikva chose a newly created, relatively conservative district on Chicago's North Shore. Opposing him is Samuel H. Young, 49, a suburban attorney and political activist in search of his first public office. Young's campaign strategy is simple: to hang the McGovern albatross around Mikva's neck...
...term Republican incumbent noted locally for his support of Project Sanguine, a costly Navy communications system that would involve burying 6,000 miles of antenna throughout northern Wisconsin's forests. That issue, coupled with the farmers' anger over the controversial Russian wheat deal and George McGovern's surprising strength in the area (polls show him even with Nixon), has put Obey in a strong position. Concedes O'Konski: "It'll be the toughest race I have ever had. No question about that...
...subject: "Richard Milhous Nixon and Women's Liberation." In the process he dropped such nuggets as "Richard Nixon walks like a puppet with strings controlled by a hand within his own head," "Most women have just started to think in the last two or three years," "McGovern is the only man who is morally superior to me." Finally Mailer invited "all the feminists in the audience to please hiss." When a satisfying number obliged, he commented: "Obedient little bitches...
...year. He has added a nap to his daily schedule and withdrawn from the position of lead-off questioner on the show's panel, taking over the more detached role of moderator. Still, flashes of the old Spivak occur. To Edmund Muskie, fence-straddling on the challenge to McGovern's California delegates at the Democratic Convention: "Senator, why is it so hard for you to come to a conclusion?" To Gloria Steinem, lamenting women's inferior status: "What is your explanation for this serious state of affairs in view of the fact that males are virtually controlled...
Angry Voter. An earlier Buchwald effort dealt with C.R.P.'s Dirty Tricks Department. One Havelock M. Honeycomb reviews a list of shady tactics, then suggests darkly that C.R.P. even hired George McGovern on the sly to make campaign blunders that would widen Nixon's victory margin. After all, says Honeycomb of McGovern, "He is short of money." Another Buchwald column dealt with Nixonian schizophrenia and featured the New Nixon (Dickey) chewing out the Old Nixon (Tricky) for the Watergate bugging, while Tricky laments: "It was the only fun I've had in four years...