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...older brother, Congressional Candidate John F. Kennedy, she has been stumping for one clansman or another for the better part of 20 years. Now 51, the hardest-driving and most intellectual of the Kennedy sisters would not have it any other way. If anything, she relishes the underdog role of the McGovern-Shriver ticket. "Sarge should be in public life," she insists. "He is awfully able, and his whole life has been in public service...
...after hot dogs, the Square offers two restaurants devoted to them. Newly opened (and prone to flooding on rainy days) is the Underdog (6 Bow St.), which has kosher dogs with assorted garnishes. The Underdog also has good bagels with cream cheese and lox. Zum Zum (9 Brattle St.), part of a small East Coast chain, serves knackwurst, bratwurst and bauernwurst, with very tasts potato salad. The dark beer is really good...
...will be reviewed in these pages in later issues. A cup of coffee can be a pleasant way to end a day or break up an evening's work, and the Square offers some comfortable, quiet places to sip and talk. The Pamplona (on Bow St. next to the Underdog) and the Window Shop (56 Brattle St.) are outdoor cafes--the Pamplona's chocolate mousse is very good. Grendel's Den (on Boylston St. across from the Hungry Persian) is a pleasant basement coffee house with canned music and arab food...
...Bruins have had trouble maintaining leads against the Rangers. The Rangers, thriving on their underdog status, tied the first game after falling behind 5-1, but lost, and won the fifth game after trailing 2-1. New York's biggest problem has been winning the close ones--three times losing to Boston by one goal margins...
MCGOVERN plans to do well where he thinks he can-Ohio, Michigan, Nebraska-and play a dramatic end game with victories in Oregon, California and New York. "It's the classic underdog strategy," says Ted Van Dyk, a former Humphrey aide who is now a McGovern adviser. "It's also General Giap's battle plan. You concentrate your forces at the point of the enemy's weakness. You pick your battlegrounds." That has led him, wisely and conveniently, to stay out of Southern contests that could have set him back...