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Bayh Chases Udall

By Joseph L. Contreras

"We're looking to stay close to Mo Udall on Tuesday," one Birch Bayh organizer said over the weekend. In pursuit of this goal, the Indiana senator has spent the last three days crisscrossing the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in search of the hand to be shaken and the vote to be won.

Sen. Bayh is running hard this week in the Bay State and with good cause. His 16 per cent share of the New Hampshire balloting last week left him in third place among the Democrats, a solid eight percentage points behind the runnerup, Rep. Morris K. Udall (D-Ariz.). And with four months of campaigning under his belt, Bayh has nary a committed delegate to his name.

"I very honestly don't believe he could survive a massive loss in Massachusetts," Robert Gordon '76, director of the field staff at Bayh's Boston headquarters said Saturday.

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