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...MUSKIE practices putting with Goofy and braces the wind in a swamp buggy. Scoop Jackson Indian-wrestles a brewery worker. Hubert Humphrey bobs and waves from a merry-go-round. George McGovern presses the flesh in a beauty parlor. John Lindsay savors the pure air of the scuba diver. On a loftier plane, the once and future candidate, Richard Nixon, meets the folks in China-and that momentous event, too, has its political significance. The great quadrennial callithump of politics, American style, is under...
...time, Henry ("Scoop") Jackson had the Democratic right to himself, talking defense up and radicals down, backing Nixon on Viet Nam and antibusing. Then along came George Wallace to steal his constituency and any chance Scoop had of taking Florida. Now Jackson is concentrating on Tennessee, and plans to challenge the bantam Southerner in his home state of Alabama. An upset win there could carry Jackson to the later primaries out West, where he is better known. Wallace figures to win Florida and stay in the race all the way, then come into Miami with as many as 250 delegates...
...fashioned instincts of the average voter. But this campaign style has the drawback of not sufficiently dramatizing the candidate. Jackson can still walk down a main street in Florida without being recognized; his crowds tend to be attentive but small. When they see a billboard that urges "Vote for Scoop," some Floridians think it is an aerospace project. Hard as he is trying to make hay with the busing issue, Jackson is not succeeding very well because Wallace talks about the subject in a manner more calculated to appeal to the rural South...
Senator Henry ("Scoop") Jackson admits that the Florida primary is crucial to his campaign for the presidency. TIME Senior Correspondent John Steele followed Jackson along the campaign trail to assess the man and listen to his cadences...
Thus the first of three free-food distribution centers in the Seattle area opened just before the New Year; five more will be opened later. The food was supplied by the U.S. Department of Agriculture after more than five months of pressure from Washington Senators Warren Magnuson and Henry ("Scoop") Jackson, who had urged that federal food surpluses be sent to Seattle to feed the city's hungry. People on welfare, those collecting Social Security benefits and most of the 30,500 who exhausted their unemployment benefits are eligible for free food under the new program...