The People: Suddenly It's Spring

In a busy El Paso shopping center, Will Wilson, the attorney general of Texas, stopped a woman shopper with a question: "What do you think of Kennedy's medical plan for the aged?" The woman looked at him blankly. "I don't know," she replied. Wilson, one of 70 candidates campaigning hard for Lyndon Johnson's Senate seat, tried again: "What do you think about aid to education?" "I don't know," the woman said again. And so it went. "People either don't have any positions on these things," said Wilson, "or else they're not talking...

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