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...perfume is very alluring," said the lady behind the counter at B. Altman's Manhattan department store. It would seem so. More than 1,000 customers mobbed her booth to buy Flame of Hope perfumes, made by mentally retarded men and women under the patronage of Eunice Kennedy Shriver...
...Shriver has long wanted a shot at elective office, and he must establish some kind of a track record soon if he is to claim serious consideration for national office in 1972. For years, his problem has been not so much what to run for as where. In Illinois, where he managed Joe Kennedy's Merchandise Mart and courted his daughter Eunice, Chicago Mayor Richard Daley has frustrated Shriver's political ambitions more than once. In 1968, Hubert Humphrey wanted Shriver for his running mate, but he dropped the idea when the Kennedy family proved unenthusiastic. Shriver...
That left Maryland. There, Shriver can count on Kennedy family support, but he also carries some troublesome political liabilities. Although the Shrivers have again leased Timberlawn, the 30-acre country estate in Montgomery County that they rented during Sarge's Washington days, he nonetheless faces charges of being a carpetbagger. A more serious obstacle is the fact that to run for the statehouse, Shriver must first knock off Incumbent Marvin Mandel, a fellow Democrat and the first Jewish Governor in Maryland history. Last January, the legislature chose Mandel, the longtime speaker of the House of Delegates, to fill...
Bitter Standoff. If Shriver enters the primary, however, the result might be a bitter standoff that could make a winner of the dark-horse candidate, Demagogue George Mahoney ("Your Home Is Your Castle-Protect It!"). Mahoney won the 1966 primary in just such a standoff; as the Democratic candidate, he scared moderate Marylanders into voting for Agnew, then a virtual unknown...
...Shriver has other problems too. Although pipe-sucking Mandel looks somewhat mossy in comparison with his ebullient rival and is taking speaking lessons to improve a lame oratorical style, he does remain well ahead in the polls. He also has a $550,000 campaign chest that Shriver, who is not wealthy, cannot match without money from the Kennedys or other generous contributors. Nonetheless, there is no sign that the old Peace Corps and OEO boss will back out. Last week camera crews were busy in Union Mills, Md., filming scenes of the old Shriver family gristmill for a campaign documentary...