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...seat in years. An attractive divorcee who worked as an aide to the late Governor Winthrop Rockefeller, she promised not to mention the incident in her campaigning. But in a district where voters take the Sabbath so seriously that Mrs. Petty's campaign manager has refused to let her stump on Sundays, the damage has already been done...
While Gilligan is a mite arrogant and precious, Rhodes is boisterous and backslapping on the stump. But if he puts voters at ease, he avoids the press like a rare disease, convinced that reporters are out to get him. The liberal Gilligan has been opulently financed by organized labor, the conservative Rhodes has had to make do with small contributions. It may be close, but Gilligan is ahead by 10 points or more...
...families as politics. Witness Pat Nixon in virtual exile at San Clemente. "We are worried about Pat," an associate of the Nixons confides. "She has not been in touch with any of her close friends. It's not like her." Witness Eleanor McGovern, once again on the stump in South Dakota, confessing with her customary candor: "I would like to have had another year before campaigning...
...American nurse at the hospital says quite bluntly the worst problem is land-mines left by American troops. The Paris peace accord stipulated that all American land-mines be removed or defused within sixty days of the agreement. The most recent casualty, a teenage girl, is still soaking the stump of her amputated leg in solution to keep it from getting infected--more than a year after the treaty was signed. Later on in the documentary, it is revealed that several children who had stepped on the mines had been forced to go around the heavily-mined perimeters of ARVN...
...loyal opposition's most effective spokesman is independent (that is, usually conservative) councilor Alfred E. Vellucci. He is an effective politician, and is as adept at pre-meeting bargaining as he is at stump speaking. Vellucci's uncanny knowledge of Cambridge's affairs, combined with his flair for rhetoric and constant well-aimed barbs at Harvard, has turned him into the most popular councilman...