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...case of Democratic Senator Birch Bayh illustrates how a candidate's chances for success in 1976 can be shaped by the new rules on fund raising. "The thing we were watching the court for," says Bayh's finance director, Myer Feldman, "the thing that would have changed the entire nature of the campaign, was a ruling that would have lifted the limit on contributions. It's that $1,000 limit that has caused the problems...
Gary Reiner, the no. 1 Crimson racketman, won the singles flight A tournament. In the semi-finals he defeated Princeton's no. 1 and first seed in the tournament, Bill Dutton, before sweeping through UPenn's no. 1 Rick Myer in a three-set match to wrap up his ECAC victory...
Lawrence Cardinal Shehan of Baltimore, who presided at the aboriginal liturgy before a crowd of 20,000 in Melbourne's Myer Music Bowl, wore a long chasuble decorated with a woodblock print of an aboriginal tribal totem. Before the consecration of bread and wine, the cardinal prayed: "Father, you made the rivers that gave us water and fish. You made the mountains and the flat country. You made the kangaroos and goannas and birds for us. You send the sun to keep us warm, the rain to make the grass grow and to fill the waterholes." The congregation responded...
...other staffers made quick calls to Missouri political figures and to journalists. Says Hart: "There was no tangible evidence whatsoever. Nobody could verify." Despite firm, repeated words of discouragement from Edward Kennedy, however, McGovern stuck to the belief that Ted would run as No. 2. Myer Feldman, a McGovern adviser and Kennedy intimate, flew to Hyannisport to take a last-minute sounding. He returned to Miami Beach to tell McGovern: "Ted's not going to do it." McGovern was unconvinced. He told Feldman: "When I get the nomination, he'll be willing." After Ted Kennedy turned him down...
...ghetto sidewalks and neighborhood storefronts. And Philip has been one step ahead of Daniel in escalating opposition to the war. While Daniel gave speeches in 1966, Philip led a group of clerics in picketing the homes of high government officials and in defying military police to demonstrate at Fort Myer, Virginia. As Daniel sat briefly in jail following the October 1967 march on the Pentagon, Philip was in Baltimore dousing draft files with blood. And it was at Philip's prodding that Daniel finally decided to join the group which burned draft files with home-made napalm in Catonsville, Maryland...