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...this-the editorials, the party pros, his own senior staff-led McGovern to buckle late last week. On Friday afternoon he telephoned Jules Witcover of the Los Angeles Times at the Hi-Ho Motel in Custer. McGovern invited Witcover to his cabin for an hour-and-a-half interview. Witcover's lengthy piece conveyed McGovern's message: public reaction to the disclosure of Eagleton's past health problems has been so negative that Eagleton must withdraw -voluntarily. McGovern told Witcover that he was confident of Eagleton's capacity to be President, but that Eagleton...
While McGovern has problems of reconciliation with the old pros of the Democratic Party, he also has a few difficulties with the kids who were attracted to him by his apparent ideological purity. Hart concedes that the changing nature of the campaign, the increasing isolation of McGovern from his zealous admirers and his greater reliance on older veterans have had a negative impact. "There is some feeling that the campaign has got so big that it's lost its direction, if not its soul," he says. "A volunteer can no longer run up and rap with McGovern...
...Democratic National Committee, ending 21 remarkable years as the steward of his party. His last hurrah was to preside with panache over the proceedings in Miami Beach last week. TIME'S Washington Bureau Chief Hugh Sidey chronicles the event through the eyes of the Democrats' pro of pros...
...Beach as a delegate-at-large: "I came through politics and worked my way up. We didn't do it overnight. These kids in Miami will be there for a lark, and that'll be the end of it." Beyond the anguish of power lost, however, many pros contend that they still know best what is good for the party and the country-and McGovern is not it. Or so it seemed to them before Miami. Later, with the campaign ahead and Nixon as the common enemy, some measure of party unity might become possible...
Although most clubs and public parks have pros, the new players often seek more intensive training. In 1969, when All American Sports Inc. opened its first three-week tennis camp in Beaver Dam, Wis., 20 children attended. This summer there are four All American camps with 670 children and 626 adults learning the game. Above Manhattan's Grand Central Station, Tennis Pro Clark Graebner has set up a clinic which last year attracted 5,000 students to its 24-hr.-day, seven-day-week sessions. For $50, tennis buffs get eight hours of concentrated practice with a ball machine...