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Roberts, a savvy organizer from California, joined the staff. After finding that the Florida campaign was "dinking along like a Toonerville trolley," Roberts more than tripled the operation to 40 paid employees. He also set up a precinct-level apparatus that made contact with 753,000 people...
...poor weather had little effect on the turnout in Cambridge, which was surprisingly high. For example, 595 people, mostly Harvard affiliates, voted at the Ward 6, Precinct 3 station at the Fire House at Broadway and Quincy Street...
Early in the evening, a Udall staffer announced the results from a precinct in the Brattle Square area to the cheering Udall supporters: 49.7 per cent for Udall
...Democrats who vote in primaries are Catholic, former Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter, a Democratic contender, is peppered with the question time and again. Though he personally opposes abortion, he supports the 1973 Supreme Court decision legalizing it-but some critics claim he had been ambiguous before the Iowa precinct caucuses (see PRESS). On the stump, Indiana's Birch Bayh is plagued by anti-abortion demonstrators who decry his leadership last year in the Senate against a constitutional amendment that would have outlawed most abortions. Sargent Shriver does not favor overturning the Supreme Court decision, but proposes setting up "life...
Wallace moved into Massachusetts with one solid success under his belt. Though his support was supposed to have eroded in the Deep South, there was no sign of it in the Mississippi caucuses at the end of January. Wallace won 45% of the precinct vote and will probably pick up much of the 27% uncommitted bloc. His nearest rival was former Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter, who received only 14%-less than expected by his backers. Sargent Shriver, who is remembered for the programs he initiated as director of the poverty program, cut into Carter's constituency, winning an estimated...