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...about $13,500 in Nebraska, mostly for TV (v. nearly $100,000 for Nixon), and without personal appearances, Reagan captured 22% of the vote-an amazing and significant showing, as Republican Governor Norbert Tiemann put it. Tiemann, to be sure, exaggerated Reagan's performance. Nebraska is Tory turf, and Reagan's conservative theme was more enthusiastically received there than it might have been elsewhere. Still, even Nixon was forced to admit that the Californian did "very well...
...dialectical terms his own crablike glide to the right in search of greater political influence. The goal, he said recently, "is to maintain your ideals without becoming irrelevant, without just sitting up on a hilltop spinning theories." To that end, he has joined the Independent Democrats on his home turf in Greenwich Village, thinks now that he made a mistake in not voting for John Kennedy in 1960. "I came to the conclusion," he admitted, "that to call upon the liberals and radicals to leave the Democrats and join the Socialists was not effective...
Only seven days after this week's Indiana primary, Robert Kennedy and Eugene McCarthy will meet on the fertile Republican turf of Nebraska for their second direct confrontation of the campaign...
...might be the evening scene in any city slum. Unkempt youths clot the stoops of dilapidated tenements, talking overboldly of drugs; drunks reel along gutters foul with garbage; young toughs from neighboring turf methodically proposition every girl who passes by, while older strangers hunt homosexual action. The night air smells of decay and anger. For all its ugly familiarity, however, this is not just another ghetto. This is the scene in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district, once the citadel of hippiedom and symbol of flower-power love...
...irked by R.F.K.'s money, modishness and restoration syndrome. "You cannot have two Camelots," he says. "There was only one. Others can only be pretenders." And there is also the grating realization that Kennedy, who has sought to expropriate so much of Humphrey's old ideological turf, was a rather conservative Harvard undergraduate when Humphrey was already an established liberal spokesman...