Word: pennsylvania
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...broad constituency of smalltown and rural voters, blue-collar ethnics, white-collar suburbanites, inner-city blacks. Week after week, winning primaries in the North, South and Midwest, he steadily thinned the ranks of his rivals. Last week by triumphing decisively and against formidable odds in Pennsylvania's pivotal primary, he all but crushed his remaining opposition, including Democratic Senior Statesman Hubert Humphrey...
...attributed to you," he wired Rockefeller, "are obviously false and malicious. I demand an immediate apology." Scoop said later: "A man who made the kind of gutless attack he made is the lowest form of humanity." He was especially annoyed that the innuendos came on the eve of the Pennsylvania primary. Rockefeller, however, showed no sign of repentance or even concern. At first, he declined to discuss the issue since he considered his remarks off the record. Then he sent Jackson a message that fell miles short of an apology: "I have made no charges and therefore there are none...
Five Minutes. Much depends on this week's Pennsylvania primary, where Carter claims that his rivals have a "last chance" to stop him. Carter not only has the support of Pittsburgh's mayor Pete Flaherty but also benefits from the fact that Philadelphia's mayor Frank Rizzo, who is Henry Jackson's chief local backer, is under heavy fire at home (see story page 18). Moreover, despite his "ethnic purity" remark, Carter last week won a firm endorsement from Atlanta's black mayor Maynard Jackson, which will not hurt him among Pennsylvania's black...
...this week's pivotal Pennsylvania primary, Mayor Frank Rizzo was hoping to play kingmaker for his friend Senator Henry Jackson. But the burly Rizzo -who vowed during his own campaign last year that "I will make Attila the Hun look like a faggot" and won re-election with 57% of the vote-has got himself into deep political trouble. A former cop and police commissioner from South Philly's tough "Little Italy" district, Rizzo, 55, is accused of failing to uphold law-and-order in the city. Having campaigned on the slogan "He held taxes down...
...bear the heaviest tax burden. The mayor has survived earlier furors-including those raised by journalistic investigations into spending for improvements on his house and his use of city police to hector political opponents. But this one may well frustrate his long-held ambition to become Governor of Pennsylvania...