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...camp in the mountains," said Muhammad Ali. "Real logs, hard beds, coal stoves." Ali already has two log cabins and a gym at Deer Lake, Pa.; he plans enough additional cabins and mobile homes to sleep 20 people, including his wife, one son and three daughters. Ali figures such sylvan simplicity is worth the $150,000 it will eventually cost. So far, the 30-year-old ex-heavyweight champion can afford it-this week's Madison Square Garden bout with Floyd Patterson guarantees him $250,000-but after that, Ali plans to go easy on the spending...
...Louis or at the Mayo Clinic for nervous exhaustion. When the McGovern camp learned that the Knight newspapers were ready to break a story on Eagleton's medical history (see THE PRESS), McGovern and his running mate decided to break the news themselves at a press conference in Sylvan Lake, S. Dak. Eagleton described himself as "an intense and hard-fighting person," and added: "I sometimes push myself too far." After his successful 1960 campaign for attorney general of Missouri, he was hospitalized in St. Louis "on my own volition" for about four weeks for "exhaustion and fatigue...
Just to make certain that his message got through, McGovern table-hopped during dinner with his family that night at the Sylvan Lake Lodge, moving from one table of reporters to the next. He never said flatly that he wanted Eagleton to quit, but the hints were plain to all present. Next day McGovern even suggested that he had been doubtful all along. After telephoning Eagleton in San Francisco, he announced: "I have insisted and still insist on a proper period of evaluation by both of us on this difficult question." Later, still leaving Eagleton a dangling man, McGovern said...
...drive for the nomination 19 months earlier, the candidate had hoped for a few days of uninterrupted leisure before starting his campaign against Richard Nixon. His plan did not work out that way, of course. All week the telephone jangled in the rustic cabin that McGovern had rented on Sylvan Lake. When he went horseback riding, he was escorted by a troop of Secret Service men and photographers...
Depressed. On his birthday McGovern had a party at Sylvan Lake Lodge, dining on barbecued buffalo with staff members and old friends from his boyhood home of Mitchell, S. Dak. Mitchell High School's summer baking class prepared an enormous birthday cake in the shape of the White House. Bob Verschoor, McGovern's finance chairman for each of his congressional campaigns, presented the candidate with 50 $50 bills-his harvest from a $50 bet he placed with Las Vegas Odds-maker Jimmy the Greek when the odds against McGovern's getting the Democratic nomination were reckoned...