Word: ohio
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...meeting. She began by writing letters and stuffing envelopes in the Milwaukee headquarters for the Wisconsin primary and soon found herself devoting at least 40 hours a week to the task. After Wisconsin, she decided to let her studies slide and followed the McGovern campaign across the country, to Ohio, to California, to New York. "In California," she says, "I slept in a church a few nights and then stayed with a Republican family in Whittier. That really was a blast-being right there in Nixon's homeland." This week, she was to be on the convention floor...
...Maryellen Fleming, 28, is a seven-year veteran of political causes, especially women's rights in Cincinnati, where she is an officer of the local chapter of the National Organization of Women. She was elected as an Ohio delegate in May. She takes the McGovern phenomenon calmly, seeing it neither as a vindication of "the system" or its last chance to accomplish good. "The system," she says, "will be around for a long time. It's a dynamic, always changing thing. What's happening now is that the McGovern people have made the changes...
...Keith Thompson, at 18 the youngest Ohio delegate, disagrees. "If the nomination is stolen," he said last week, "then it may be the last chance for the system." At the same time, Thompson, who has been working in Ohio campaigns ever since he watched the Chicago debacle on television four years ago, would not object to McGovern's drifting to the right in order to build a larger constituency. "We want to elect a President," he said. He has nothing but contempt for Jerry Rubin and Abbie Hoffman and their codes of manic anarchy. "Their philosophy...
...native New Yorker who was educated at Columbia, Harvard and the Sorbonne, Lansner was an assistant philosophy professor at Ohio's Kenyon College and an editor of Art News before he joined Newsweek in 1954. Last week, while Lansner talked about "becoming a human being again, even having weekends off," Elliott claimed to welcome his own return to the grind. "It was a long haul," he said of his previous stint as editor, "but now the pressure has cooled, and I'm looking forward to going back in. I guess I'm gung-ho." A former TIME...