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More accurately, Wallace turned the party inside out. The Democrat who ran closest to him was Hubert Humphrey, with a mere 18% of the vote. The supposed front runner, Edmund Muskie, did only half as well as Humphrey, finishing fourth after Scoop Jackson (13%). In a brooding, bitter election-night speech, Muskie said of Wallace: "I hate what he stands for. The man is a demagogue of the worst kind. This election result in Florida reveals to a greater extent than I had imagined some of the worst instincts of which human beings are capable...
JACKSON. To achieve his third-place ranking in Florida, Washington's Scoop Jackson also muddied his strong civil rights record, which dates back some three decades, staking out an antibusing position just a shade short of Wallace's. The main difference was that he did not plead for a halt to busing by presidential decree or legislation; instead, he sought the slower route of a constitutional amendment. Jackson's amendment is under consideration in the Congress and it includes "freedom of choice" and the "neighborhood school," proposals long espoused by anti-integrationists. He also called for federal...
Isotoners come in several colors, have scoop or mock-turtle necks and are meant to be worn like any body suit. Prices: $45 for the turtle neck, $35 for the scoop, $35 for the bottoms. Four-ounce refills of the cream are $8.50. The company recently introduced two-piece body suits for men, and this spring will place on sale a "safari" model with short sleeves, club collar and front pockets. Designer Cardinali has sketched "couture" print evening body suits for fall, and Geoffrey Beene already has a collection of separates designed to go with the Isotoner...
...Angeles Times story on the city's mayor, Democratic Presidential Hopeful Sam Yorty, Actress Candice Bergen scored a small scoop: Sam and Betts Yorty both practice meditation. The mayor does it yoga-style in the bathroom after a shower; Betts does it with a mantra (the repetition of a syllable pattern). "I've been meditating for 30 years," Sam told Candy. "I regard it as just concentrated prayer. It lets me gather up strength for the day to withstand the barbs in the Times...
...waves roll in, sighing at last up the shore. The sky glows faintly overhead and darkens at the horizon. At certain seasons, schools of tiny mad fish called grunion fling themselves on the sand to spawn; they come in shimmering silver waves and are decimated by grunion-hunters who scoop them up into buckets, alive and writhing and unsatisfied...