People: Sep. 27, 1968

Though $600,000 in campaign bills are still to be paid, Eugene McCarthy appeared relaxed and unworried while vacationing on the French Riviera last week. In a group with Wife Abigail and one of his chief fund raisers, Wall Street's Howard Stein, he enjoyed his favorite sports—swimming, sunbathing and needling. Said the Senator, weaving a metaphor that he picked up while campaigning in an Illinois textile mill: "Nixon doesn't have woof. Humphrey has lots of woof but no warp."

America's senior dissenter started writing books before the turn of the century and since then has turned out 90 volumes that attacked Chicago meat...

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