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While most pundits delivered weighty post-election analyses, Columnist Robert Novak provided one of the most memorable stories by going out on the beat at the precinct level. Instead of spending election night in front of a TV set, he prowled the polling places on Chicago's heavily Negro, heavily Democratic West Side. Local politicians bar newsmen from the polls, but Novak got poll watcher's credentials from a friendly Republican, and these enabled him to observe what he calls "democracy, Chicago-style." Wrote Novak, in a column signed by himself and his partner, Rowland Evans: "What...
...unity. Humphrey wound up his campaign odyssey of more than 98,000 miles amid laughter, with a triumphant Los Angeles parade and a four-hour telethon with Edmund Muskie. Humphrey flew home to Waverly, Minn., during the early hours of Election Day to vote in Marysville Township, his home precinct, which gave him 385 votes to Nixon's 128 and 15 for Wallace...
Fink's secret is community empathy, an element that is an absolute essential to keeping the peace in his Ninth Precinct. He describes his melting-pot enclave of less than one square mile as "a bouillabaisse" in which "all these people are cooking but never assimilate...
Besides its ethnic and racial tensions, the precinct is also a hunting grounds for muggers, who roam its subways, tenements and littered alleyways. Compounding the problem are the hippies, who have taken over the East Village area. There are also scores of "plastic (artificial) hippies," who come only on weekends or during school vacations and then go back home...
Easy to Spot. Rather than harass the hippies, Fink opens the doors of his precinct house and invites them in to "rap" (chat, deriving from "rapport") about their complaints. He does them favors, offers them free tickets to local shows, once wrote a letter of recommendation for a scholarship-seeking hippie who wanted to return to college. Above all, he speaks their language; when rapping with a hippie, for example, Fink usually calls his own police "the fuzz...