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McGovern's backers are an especially fervent group. They know their candidate is behind, and they are more than willing to try harder. This group includes George Wald, John Kenneth Galbraith, Mary Bunting and Abram Chayes. The McGovern student organization, coordinated by Jamie Galbraith '73, is the only one yet established at Harvard. It has an office on Dunster Street and boasts 40 to 50 part-time volunteers...
...Wald's enthusiasm for McGovern is almost contagious: "I think he comes to this candidacy with the cleanest hands of any politican I know," Wald says. "On all the issues I know, George McGovern's been there for a long time....He's a man who has almost singlehandedly fought for better nutrition, food-stamps, labor and welfare rights, a guaranteed minimum income, and of course...
...Wald's comments on the potential candidacy of the enigma from Minnesota were less generous: "McCarthy is very, very bright, a fine person, but he cannot successfully run again...The only problem with the 1968 McCarthy campaign was Gene McCarthy...I love him as a person but he's very unreliable...
Before a sympathetic audience--led in its enthusiasm by George Wald and Mary I. Bunting--he answered charges of a "one issue candidacy." "It is better to be a one issue candidate than a no issue candidate...
Faculty discontent with the Center, its facilities and location has also been widespread. The Biology department, with George Wald, Higgins Professor of Biology its most outspoken representative, complained of the great distances separating the Center from other Biology research facilities...