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Turning Off Mao. In New York's 14th Congressional District, about 150 high school and college students are at work canvassing through Brooklyn for Peter Eikenberry, an antiwar candidate fighting incumbent John J. Rooney, known to some of the students as "Superhawk." Says one volunteer who was arrested during Columbia's 1968 spring riots: "Students aren't interested in the S.D.S. rhetoric any more. We don't identify with their worker-student alliances or their Maoism. There's a very real difference between rhetoric and action on the campus-kids talk radical and act liberal...
...good reviews for his "subversive comedy," Sheep on the Runway, may have launched a playwright's career for Columnist Art Buchwald (see THE THEATER). Meanwhile, cocktail conversation in New York and Washington is centered on Sheep's catalyst, Joseph Mayflower, played by Martin Gabel. Could Mayflower, a superhawk newsman who drinks only bottled water and claims Is Peace Inevitable? among his writing credits, possibly be a parody of Pundit Joseph Alsop? Buchwald denies it unconvincingly, but Alsop seems to think so. "If Joe's still angry after the run," suggests the humorist, "we'll meet some...
...Politics Note: College students in the Boston area were informed by a circular that a radical named Michael Harrington was running for Congress against a "superhawk." Student volunteers saw a Harrington victory as a good omen for the October Moratorium. Many were certain that this Michael Harrington was the Michael Harrington who wrote The Other America and Toward a Democratic Left. No, that man is another Michael Harrington. The Sixth District may not be ready...
...Negro attorney, in that year's Democratic primary. This year, in the aftermath of Martin Luther King's assassination, another Negro attorney, George Payton Jr., 39, decided to try. Scraping together the $2,000 registration fee with loans from relatives, Payton attacked Rivers as a "warmonger and superhawk," stumped for a $2 minimum wage, expanded social security, and liberal federal housing programs...
...craggily handsome Stanford graduate and Korean War Marine hero, McCloskey tagged Shirley a superhawk and won a lot of points by her refusal to debate the issues with...