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However, many observers doubt that controlling the Democratic platform would give DA much clout. For the most part, the coalition is seen as a means to keep Ted Kennedy honest on the left, especially in his economic policies. They want to stop his slide to the political center to get elected. But since DA lacks a candidate of its own--Carter is persona non grata and Brown is not taken seriously--Kennedy has little to worry about in the way of competition for DA votes, which probably explains why he decided not to speak before the conference at its Saturday...
Others, including many who have held Cambridge season tickets all their lives, cheer on the Cambridge Homeowners and Taxpayers (CHT) and the Cambridge Property Owners Association (CPOA) teams--groups that boomed in the past but seem, Oakland Athletics style, to be losing a little bit of their clout...
...without the University. "Women's research is low on Harvard's totem pole, but we can go to the Ford, Carnegie and Lilly and be the first on the queue," Wolfman says. In other words, Radcliffe's separate voice with the government and with corporations gives it more clout in seeking funds for women's needs that would get buried in any Harvard dossier...
Even though the 33 magazines have a joint circulation of 60 million, one editor at least had few illusions about their collective clout, especially head to head with Opposition Leader Phyllis Schlafly. Says Cosmo's Helen Gurley Brown: "All the women's magazines together may not be as effective as Phyllis Schlafly with her rabble-rousing TV appearances. But we hope reason will prevail...
...Detroit Mayor Coleman Young vs. Georgia's Julian Bond, Chip Carter vs. former Congressman Allard Lowenstein, Miss Lillian vs. all comers. It was White House clout against Kennedy cachet, a rush of federal block grants and prestigious appointments against a hint of similar largesse tomorrow. It was who had the buses and got enough of them to the polls. It was, alas, Florida and its distressingly premature launching of the 1980 presidential race...