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...front runner came dangerously close to blowing his lead in the final lap. After smashing Favorite Son Lloyd Bentsen in Texas on May Day, he was shocked by six setbacks over the next five weeks. He lost Nebraska, Idaho and Oregon to Church; he dropped Maryland, Nevada and Rhode Island to Brown; he just barely edged Udall in Michigan...
...most persuasive argument with the leaders would be fresh primary victories. This week 56 delegates will be chosen in Montana, Rhode Island and South Dakota. But Carter is concentrating on the vastly more important "Super Bowl" next week, when 540 Democratic delegates will be elected in California, New Jersey and Ohio. He is expected to lose California to Brown but still pick up many of the state's delegates. In Ohio, he maintained his lead, which he was trying to widen by aggressive campaigning. But in New Jersey, his lead became more fragile when his opponents-a slate...
...This is a shoestring operation," says Frank Church, who, despite a late start and a money shortage, has won three primaries in three tries. His dream now is to capture Montana and Rhode Island this week, win Ohio next week, and run second to Jerry Brown in California. Few expect him to do all-or even most-of that, but he may well become a factor at the Democratic Convention. On an economy-class flight from Portland, Ore., Church talked to TIME West Coast Bureau Chief Jess Cook...
Brown is also urging votes for uncommitted delegates who are running under his banner in Rhode Island next week and New Jersey on June 8. His staff has hopes of picking up delegates from Delaware, North Dakota, Utah and Colorado in the coming weeks. A realistic expectation is that he will arrive at the convention with something over 200 delegates-and then, who knows? He insists that he has a chance of beating back Carter some time after the first ballot at the convention. Says Brown: "If I do, I see no reason why I shouldn...
Many plants already in cultivation could be better used to increase food supplies. Spiros Constantinides of the University of Rhode Island has suggested that okra-whose viscid green pods provide the distinctive ingredient in gumbo dishes-could become an important source of protein if cooks would use its ripe seeds as well as its tasty pods. Researchers with the National Academy of Sciences have been studying a protein-rich "winged bean" that grows in New Guinea and Southeast Asia, and believe it could be successfully introduced into other warm rainy areas where the principal crops-yams, cassava, potatoes...