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■ A Boston Globe poll two days after Iowa shows Jimmy Carter leading Edward Kennedy in New Hampshire for the first time: Carter 35 per cent, Kennedy 31, Jerry Brown 11, and (a dangerous) 23 undecided. . . . Carter’s strategy now calls for him to enter the Vermont primary Mar. 4, which he had intended to skip. Reason: he’s rated even with Kennedy there now. Robert Strauss figures Carter victories in New Hampshire and Vermont would counter Teddy’s win in Massachusetts on Mar. 4. . . . Kennedy forces, by the way, made a quarter of a million phone calls in Iowa before the caucuses. . . . The regular Congressional Quarterly rundown of Senate votes in 1979 shows that Kennedy voted against Carter only 7 per cent of the time, but it also shows that Kennedy missed one out of every four votes, for what Quarterly calls “one of the poorest attendance records ever.” (Carter’s most dependable supporter among Republicans was Sen. Jacob Javits, who voted with the President 82 per cent of the time.) . . . Human Events dug this one up. Kennedy said he opposed the grain boycott of the USSR because “food should never be used” as a foreign-policy weapon. But back in 1973 Kennedy opposed a $24-million credit for wheat purchases by post-Allende Chile. . . . Miami Herald reports Jerry Brown isn’t getting much moola from big biz these days, but “chiropractors, acupuncturists, and organized vegetable growers favor him.” Four people associated with Down to Earth, Inc. have contributed the maximum $1,000 to Brown’s campaign.

■ Former Nixon counsel Harry S. Dent, a bigwig in South Carolina Republican affairs, comments on the John Sears/Ronald Reagan strategy in Iowa: “They played a Rose Garden strategy when they didn’t own one.” Dent is uncommitted in the pivotal S.C. primary Mar. 8, but his former boss Strom Thurmond and popular former GOP Gov. James Edwards have come out for Connally. . . . Connally had hoped to knock out Reagan in S.C., or at least hit him hard enough to douse enthusiasm for him in Alabama, Florida, and Georgia, whose primaries are three days later. But Connally’s strategy is now complicated with last-minute entry of Howard Baker and George Bush into S.C. race. . . . Baker, set back in Iowa, plans to spend 23 days between then and Feb. 26 in New Hampshire. According to St. Louis Post-Dispatch, if Baker hasn’t come in first or second in a primary before Illinois (Mar. 18) he’ll “reassess” his position. . . . Who’s the most liberal of them all? No contest. It’s Rep. John Anderson of Illinois, who last week got a) a $1,000 check from GM heir and supporter of all leftist causes Stewart Mott, b) contributions from Gore Vidal, Norman Lear, and Irving Wallace, c) a swanky Hollywood showbiz reception, and d) the accolade—by the Washington Post’s Sally Quinn—of Dark Horse Chic.

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■ A Boston Globe poll two days after Iowa shows Jimmy Carter leading Edward Kennedy in New Hampshire for the first time: Carter 35 per cent, Kennedy 31, Jerry Brown 11, and (a dangerous) 23 undecided. . . . Carter’s strategy now calls for him to enter the Vermont primary Mar. 4, which he had intended to skip. Reason: he’s rated even with Kennedy there now. Robert Strauss figures Carter victories in New Hampshire and Vermont would counter Teddy’s win in Massachusetts on Mar. 4. . . . Kennedy forces, by the way, made a quarter of a million phone calls in Iowa before the caucuses. . . . The regular Congressional Quarterly rundown of Senate votes in 1979 shows that Kennedy voted against Carter only 7 per cent of the time, but it also shows that Kennedy missed one out of every four votes, for what Quarterly calls “one of the poorest attendance records ever.” (Carter’s most dependable supporter among Republicans was Sen. Jacob Javits, who voted with the President 82 per cent of the time.) . . . Human Events dug this one up. Kennedy said he opposed the grain boycott of the USSR because “food should never be used” as a foreign-policy weapon. But back in 1973 Kennedy opposed a $24-million credit for wheat purchases by post-Allende Chile. . . . Miami Herald reports Jerry Brown isn’t getting much moola from big biz these days, but “chiropractors, acupuncturists, and organized vegetable growers favor him.” Four people associated with Down to Earth, Inc. have contributed the maximum $1,000 to Brown’s campaign.

■ Former Nixon counsel Harry S. Dent, a bigwig in South Carolina Republican affairs, comments on the John Sears/Ronald Reagan strategy in Iowa: “They played a Rose Garden strategy when they didn’t own one.” Dent is uncommitted in the pivotal S.C. primary Mar. 8, but his former boss Strom Thurmond and popular former GOP Gov. James Edwards have come out for Connally. . . . Connally had hoped to knock out Reagan in S.C., or at least hit him hard enough to douse enthusiasm for him in Alabama, Florida, and Georgia, whose primaries are three days later. But Connally’s strategy is now complicated with last-minute entry of Howard Baker and George Bush into S.C. race. . . . Baker, set back in Iowa, plans to spend 23 days between then and Feb. 26 in New Hampshire. According to St. Louis Post-Dispatch, if Baker hasn’t come in first or second in a primary before Illinois (Mar. 18) he’ll “reassess” his position. . . . Who’s the most liberal of them all? No contest. It’s Rep. John Anderson of Illinois, who last week got a) a $1,000 check from GM heir and supporter of all leftist causes Stewart Mott, b) contributions from Gore Vidal, Norman Lear, and Irving Wallace, c) a swanky Hollywood showbiz reception, and d) the accolade—by the Washington Post’s Sally Quinn—of Dark Horse Chic.