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...Scoop Jackson was desperately trying to persuade voters that he is more than a stand-in for H.H.H. Straining to discredit his chief competitor on the ballot, he even tried to suggest that Jimmy Carter's indifferent stand on the right-to-work law when he was Georgia's Governor was somehow responsible for unemployment in Philadelphia. Big labor and most of the state's party sachems were pushing for Jackson in hopes of stalling Carter and making the Pennsylvania outcome so indecisive that the real winner would be Humphrey. Locals of the Sheet Metal Workers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Pennsylvania's Guerrilla War | 4/26/1976 | See Source »

...Neither Scoop Jackson nor Mo Udall was making much of the issue last week. Udall called Carter "a fine and decent man." When all the hairsplitting was done, the views of Udall and Jackson were so similar to Carter's as to be virtually indistinguishable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Back from a Blunder | 4/26/1976 | See Source »

...feature. He is a man of many parts, but he has given heart, mind, soul and smile to winning the presidency. He has enlisted wife, children, sister, aunt, mother and sometimes God and Reinhold Niebuhr. There is almost no part of Carter left over for a real laugh. If Scoop Jackson has held a conversation longer than three minutes recently on a subject other than himself and politics, it has not been recorded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: Oh for Another Stargazing Gardener | 4/26/1976 | See Source »

...different locations in New York, some of them rousing successes, others total flops. He had started out at Manhattan's Pennsylvania Station at 8 a.m., accosting commuters single-mindedly on their way to work. He had courted Jewish voters, though he knew their hearts were with Scoop Jackson; he had been cheered by students, who he knew were his own. Twice he had been attacked by radicals shouting "Fascist!" His motorcade had suffered the ignominy of a flat tire on the Grand Central Parkway. In the afternoon, he flew to Buffalo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Three Candidates on the Run | 4/12/1976 | See Source »

Sighs Udall's campaign administrative director Edward Coyle: "Money that comes in during the morning is spent by afternoon." Much the same is true of once flush Scoop Jackson. He has less than $200,000 on hand. Jimmy Carter had only some $25,000 in cash at last count and was living from week to week. Like other candidates, Carter is not broke-but he keeps an eye on the morning mail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CAMPAIGN: They're Pinched | 4/12/1976 | See Source »

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