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...hotel lobby, Republicans are describing this fall's election prospects as "ominous" and "disastrous." Says a veteran state chairman: "This is the worst situation I've ever seen, and that includes 1936 and 1964. Watergate is having a devastating effect on the recruitment of candidates. Even precinct canvassers have had doors slammed in their faces." Another G.O.P. state chairman laments: "Watergate is a self-fulfilling prophecy. Everybody says it's going to be a bad year for Republicans, so the good candidates who could win won't come forward and the givers don't give...
...date, no serious G.O.P. opposition has emerged to challenge such Democratic incumbents as California's Senator Alan Cranston, Wisconsin's Senator Gaylord Nelson, Illinois' Senator Adlai E. Stevenson III or Minnesota's Governor Wendell R. Anderson. Only a month before Minnesota's precinct caucuses are to be held, the G.O.P. has no gubernatorial candidate on the horizon. The Democrats are having no such problems. Says Norbert R. Dreiling, the party's state chairman in Kansas: "People who were reluctant to run as sacrificial lambs are now begging for a spot on the ticket...
...SEVEN-UPS are a squad of special cops operating inside the New York City police force. They are brutally efficient, although they could hardly be called an elite corps; their tactics owe as much to football fields and medieval dungeons as the precinct house. The movie, coarse and hammer hard, follows the cops as they bust up an underworld kidnaping ring and avenge the death of a squad member. Director Philip d'Antoni, who produced Bullitt and The French Connection, has cut The Seven-Ups to pattern. The chase scene measures up just fine against its predecessors...
...ages. Cambridge's elected representatives and senators are all Democrats. The House Majority Leader, Tip O'Neill, lives in Cambridge, as does the head of the Massachusetts Democratic Party. In a recent State Senate race in East Cambridge, the GOP candidate picked up only two votes in one precinct. Governor Francis W. Sargent's last major campaign operation in the city was led by Democrat Joe DeCuglielmo--who is now, coincidentally or not, a judge. (The governor's most recent judicial appointment is a Cambridge Democrat named McGovern.) Even the Republican Ripon Society closed its doors here and moved...
Most bewildered of all are the city's Republicans. Clyde Brummell, 47, a carpenter and a Republican precinct committeeman, says: "When I was growing up, all I heard was that Herbert Hoover caused the Depression. Now they are trying to Hooverize the Republican Party again, saddling us with something we didn't cause...