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Daniel Patrick Moynihan, professor of Government and New York senatorial candidate, returned to Harvard last semester from a stint at the United Nations, and was greeted by a packed house at his introductory lecture on "Ethnicity in Politics." A police officer stood guard at the Sever classroom door to insure that the class would not be interrupted by reporters. When a student attempted to leave in the middle of the lecture, Moynihan yelled, "Sir, sir, someone bring that student back in here." The student was apprehended and returned to his seat...
Later, during his campaign in New York, Moynihan was mashed in the face with a blueberry pie. This incident was unrelated, but perhaps should have been otherwise...
...been a snappy rendition of Coney Island Baby, calling to mind his debonair manner and cherubic smile. But on the day after the votes were counted, his top aide said: "We're going to change to With a Little Bit of Luck." As it turned out, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, 49, needed all the luck of the Irish last week to defeat Congresswoman Bella Abzug, 56, by 1% of the total vote to win a five-candidate contest for the Democratic senatorial nomination in New York State...
...fight between Moynihan and Abzug was an ungentlemanly and unladylike brawl-even for New York's Democrats. Bullhorn-voiced and madly hatted, Congresswoman Abzug, serving her third liberal term in the House, scorned her opponent as being little more than a Republican masquerading as a Democrat, and made much of the fact that he had served Richard Nixon as puckish gadfly, adviser and, ultimately, Ambassador to India. In turn, Moynihan made Abzug sound like the wicked witch of the West Side, implying she was guilty of "demagoguery and hypocrisy" for proclaiming her support of Israel while not voting...
Bella is considered ahead in the race. She starts with a militant following among New York's Jewish voters, who customarily cast almost 40% of the Democratic primary ballots. But Moynihan has cut into the Jewish vote with his impassioned defense of Israel at the U.N. Beyond that, he is more popular than Bella among moderate-to-conservative Roman Catholic voters, one of the state's largest voting blocs...