The Nation: Taunting the Tiger

One man with no fear of machines is Oklahoma's Senator Fred Harris. A month ago, he quietly faded out of the race for the Democratic presidential nomination after just 46 desultory days of campaigning. Now he plans to offer himself as a "symbolic" candidate in areas where Democratic primary voters lack a non machine alternative. New Jersey. New York and Ohio are on Harris' list; but it is headed, of course, by Dick Daley's Cook County. Unlike Ed Muskie and George McGovern, who plan to steer clear of...

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