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...three acres on Chappaquiddick recently went for a price of $125,000. Some projects on the Vineyard, where building permits are filed at the rate of one a day, would carve old farms into quarter-acre lots; others include the island's first beachfront condominiums and its first trailer camp. On Nantucket, now dotted with about 3,000 gray-shingle houses, 1,884 house lots were being planned for development this spring. Besides creating an almost suburban clutter, the projects endanger the limited local water supplies. Nantucket's Hummock Pond already is rank from sewage overflow...
...floor leaders, each responsible for several states, had a principal deputy in every state delegation. Moreover they were linked by telephone to McGovern's communications trailer, parked outside the convention hall, and to the candidate's "boiler room" at the Doral Hotel. McGovern Aide Rick Stearns briefed all the McGovern delegates for two hours before the convention, then spent another two hours instructing his 250 whips?one for every six McGovern delegates. Said Stearns: "We feared procedural chicanery...
Although ideologically committed to getting more women seated on the South Carolina delegation, the McGovern agents had to be sure the vote was either above or below the twilight zone. As the vote proceeded, Stearns, who was sitting in the trailer outside, warned Hart on the floor that the count looked uncomfortably close. With that, McGovern's aides began shaving their total, pulling votes away from the women's position in order to make their challenge lose by a sufficient margin. Humphrey's forces?and some TV commentators?at first read the tallies as an indication that McGovern...
...A.B.M.'s Kampelman phoned back to the candidate's trailer: "They're switching their ayes to no. They don't have a majority of this convention. They're afraid...
...Larry O'Brien before the convention opened. Some of them were pretty scary. Beards, longhairs, nuts out there, filling up O'Brien's beloved party seats, ready to tear his whole political life to shreds. He puffed on his Kents and chortled, sitting in his trailer just outside the hall, outwardly calm but inside taut. He would have the whole monstrous affair to oversee...