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...87th Precinct (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). PREMIERE of a new bullet series. Wherever the 87th precinct is, it looks familiar. Tonight the precinct's supersleuth finds a female corpse floating in the river with a mysterious tattoo on her hand...
Forces in Politics. The statewide jaunts served him well when he wandered into politics; everybody in Arizona, it seems, has known Barry Goldwater since way back when. In 1930, he casually joined the Republican Party and even won a post as precinct committeeman, although the G.O.P. in prewar Arizona seemed to have little future. Largely because early settlers came from Democratic Texas and the Deep South, Arizona grew up as a one-party state; after 1945, new emigrants from the Republican Midwest cut the Democratic lead from the traditional 12-1 ratio to about 4-1. But Goldwater...
...local resident well-known in the precinct area can often swing from 4 to 20 votes to the candidate of his choice, Napolitan said. He then pointed out that one more vote in each precinct would have given Nixon a majority of the popular vote in the 1960 Presidential election...
...plot, such as it is, revolves around a bunch of Chicago hoods, some imported Parisian prostitutes and a precinct's worth of incompetent cops. A love interest is thrown in between the head cop and the chief poule, but all this subplot produces are some melodic but agonizingly uninteresting love songs. Each of the three groups of characters has amusing ensemble bits: the prostitutes form an amazingly synchronized kickline, and the hoods have a funny song about the Apalachin Assassination Association...
...Goldwater: "It's just what I've been saying. We cannot win as a dime-store copy of the opposition's platform. We offered voters insufficient choice with a me-too candidate. We must be different. My guess is that 80% of the state chairmen, the precinct committeemen, the workers think it is true. Everyone recognizes it except the party leadership...