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ROBERT B. ZIELKE New Milford, Conn...
...grandfather rode with Jeb Stuart in the Confederate cavalry. Son of a banker, Robert Sargent Shriver Jr. was born in Westminster, Md., where the nearby family homestead and grain mill, built in 1797, is now a museum run by the Shriver Foundation. Sargent prepped at Canterbury School, New Milford, Conn., went on to graduate cum laude from Yale. As editor of the Yale Daily News, Shriver, a Catholic, once proudly described himself as "Christian, Aristotelian, optimist and American." After graduating from Yale law school, he joined the Navy and fought the war on battleships and in submarines in both...
Some residents express downright hostility toward the candidates. "These politicians, what do they care about us?" asks Berlin's DuMesnil. "The only time we see them is when they're looking for a few votes." At a high school assembly in Milford, a student opened the questioning of Democratic Senator Vance Hartke by asking: "Senator, do you think students should be forced to come to these political rallies?" Hartke said no-and the student promptly walked out. As polltakers, reporters and canvassers for the candidates keep probing the voters, resentment is growing. "The people are getting tired...
After traveling through the state from Peterboro to Hampton and from Milford to Berlin, TIME Correspondent John Stacks finds that much of the intense campaigning is "out of joint with the reserved, modest and altogether sensible views of New Hampshirites about what the primary can mean to them. The New Hampshire contest is a minuet conducted by the press and the politicians. It means more to both those groups than to the people of New Hampshire...
...Milford, Conn...