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...weeks. He is expanding his efforts to raise funds, which so far total about $600,000. Last weekend he attended a $25-a-ticket fund-raising party at Hugh Hefner's fortress-like mansion in Los Angeles. This week he was campaigning in Nevada and mounting an aggressive write-in campaign in Oregon. But to block Carter he must surge in California on June...
...Frank Church (D.-Idaho) won the crucial Oregon Democratic primary yesterday, beating former governor Jimmy Carter of Georgia and write-in candidate Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr. of California by a comfortable margin...
...which has 34 delegates, Carter was narrowly ahead, but Church's strength was growing; he has spent eleven days so far this year in his next-door state, which Carter-spread thin-has not visited since 1975. The race gained another candidate last week when Brown began a write-in campaign...
Richard H. Englefield, write-in challenger on the Republican side of things in New Hampshire, called The Crimson yesterday from a telephone booth in Boston to make sure that Crimson reporters, who picked up some of his campaign literature Tuesday in Manchester, had their facts straight. This wasn't out of character, since one of the promises the 38-year-old liquor salesman and former reporter from Springfield, Illinois, has made in his campaign runs thus...
...returns on his write-in votes are not in yet, Englefield said, adding, "We were looking for 15,000 to 20,000 votes. Our polls--I've studied political science--showed 80 per cent disenchantment among New Hampshire Republicans and independents. It looks like clear concealment of my votes...