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McCarthy will require all of his urbane powers of persuasion. Of late, the Minnesotan's campaign forays have seemed forced marches. In both Indiana and Nebraska, his volunteer student armies have dwindled. McCarthy has sometimes appeared supercilious, as last week in Indiana, when he declared the Hoosier primary to be "critical" to the outcome of the Democratic race. Later, in an unwonted exercise of heads-I-win-tails-you-lose casuistry, he explained testily that he meant it would be crucial only if he won against Kennedy and Hoosier Favorite Son Roger Branigin. Otherwise, he averred, Indiana would...
...before Bobby announced, no Kennedy-committed candidates are listed on the ballot to select the 22 at-large delegates. The at-large ballot is a bewildering laundry list of 75 names-21 identified as uncommitted, 30 as committed to Lyndon Johnson, and 24 as committed to McCarthy. If the Minnesotan's partisans carefully vote only for his delegates while the rest of the ballots are scattered among the 51 uncommitted and Johnson delegates, McCarthy could come away richer in convention strength, if not in popular votes...
...with reporters outside a Muncie Westinghouse plant and poled three line drives practically out of the factory grounds. More than normally disorganized, McCarthy appeared late for speeches, found his audience sparse and unresponsive. Part of the problem was financial. Though he does not lack for potential campaign contributors, the Minnesotan's nonchalance in seeking funds has left his forces with $100,000 in debts from earlier campaign forays...
McCarthy, no less than Kennedy, has been forced to look at the world through a wider-angle lens since the President's renunciation. At the University of Pennsylvania, the Minnesotan reflected with almost casual eloquence on the misdirection of U.S. foreign policy. "We have relied too much on the conception of the political bloc," he said, "insisting that all nations in a given area must act as a totality. If we cannot respect nationalism and diversity in Europe, where diversity has always flourished, how can we expect to cope with diversity in Africa, Asia and Latin America? The Russian...
...well control enough delegates after the convention's first ballot to tip the balance in a close race between Kennedy and Humphrey. Which way might he go? McCarthy isn't saying, but the suspicion, shared by Kennedy's strategists, is that he would favor his fellow Minnesotan, Hubert Humphrey...