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...Boiling 81, Wright 77, McFall 31. With McFall gone under the low-man-out rule, there was speculation that if Burton and Wright beat out Boiling on the second ballot, Burton would win the runoff -since Boiling's supporters would not throw their ballots to the conservative Texan. If Burton and Boiling were the survivors, Boiling would win, since Wright's backers would not vote for the liberal Californian. There were rumors that on the second ballot some of Burton's supporters threw their votes to Wright to guarantee that Boiling would be squeezed out. Burton admits...
...WRIGHT, 53, a Texan who is generally regarded as the most conservative of the candidates. If elected, Wright would help swing the votes of Southern Congressmen and some big-city Democrats...
...high seriousness imposed by the hardcore New York art world. His reputation would look after itself; he would not tend it. Besides, Rauschenberg was a natural dissipater. The sight of him in his porcupine-quill leather jacket, erect but slightly, marinated with Jack Daniel's, cackling like a Texan loon and trying to get his arm around everyone at once, was too familiar...
Among some, however, there is considerable optimism about the Carter era. Notes Paul Delisle, maître d' of what he hopes will continue to be Washington's most "in" restaurant, the Sans Souci: "Once we had the Texan. He learned to eat fine French food. The Georgian-he can learn too." In his thick French accent, Delisle jokingly offers an outrageously far-out claim to kinship with the President-elect: "I am from Marseille, so Mr. Carter and I are both Southerners...
...least part of this drama within American drama involves Jones himself. In his Levi's jacket and open-necked shirt, standing 6 ft. 3 in. even without his stetson, Jones seems to have sprung from a Marlboro ad. In fact this quintessential Texan-moving slowly, talking slowly, even smiling slowly -was born in Albuquerque. From 13 on, he worked as a janitor, a cattle weigher, a powderman in a Colorado mine, a highway surveyor, a truck driver, a uranium prospector...