POLITICS: Those Other Campaigners, Pat and Eleanor

WHETHER or not American politics makes strange bedfellows, it assuredly is making for active, absent ones in election year 1972. Last spring, George McGovern was flying over the Eastern seaboard in a private airplane, headed for a primary campaign stop, when a companion recognized another craft off the wing. "George," he advised, "get to the window. This may be your only chance to see Eleanor the rest of this campaign."

That was only a slight exaggeration.

Since January, Eleanor McGovern has covered more ground and logged more flying hours than any other presidential...

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