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DETROIT FREE PRESS Monday. Jan. 10. '72 3-B Ill urn Muskie Staff Fears Florida 00 do much campaigning, he will spend a lot of time in their state; they say 12 tentative dates have been scheduled because Illinois is "pivotal" (he lost it by 8,858 votes to John F. Kennedy in 1960, won it by 134,960 from Humphrey in 1968) Muskie's decision to make his formal announcement In the folksy setting of Kennebunk Beach, went against the grain of advisers who plugged for a big city, where media facilities are better; but the boss held out, favoring the fireside image, and the mountain of electronic paraphernalia went to Humphrey may have set a fad by showing up at a Miami Dolphins football game and getting all that free prime time; his Florida pri-m a opponents are busy booking themselves into other sports events where cameras lurk A boomlet for Florida Gov.

Reuben Askew as anybody's vice-presidential running mate fell on fallow ground when a letter saying what a fine veep he would make went to George Wallace; back came a form letter asking for a Wallace campaign contribution Jackson is going all-out on the law-and-order theme in Florida, but only in the "cracker" northern part of the state; down south, with his eye on the large Jewish vote, he throws around Hebrew and Yiddish, first practicing make sure he has the vote. -IS Photo by BILL EISNER Fireman Saves Child Three-year-old Casey Pierson is carried to safety by Detroit Fire Lt. Roy Price after the child's home at 12303 Northlawn caught fire Sunday. The child, overcome by smoke and heat, stopped breathing on the way to Mt. Carmel Mercy Hospital, but firemen were able to revive him.

The fire, according to the fire department, started in the stairway and spread to the second floor and attic. No one else was injured. BV WARREN ROGERS Frtt Pr Special Wrlttr WASHINGTON With 42 weeks to Election Day and counting, Democratic front-runner Edmund Muskie's staff is divided over strategy in the March 14 Florida primary: whether to go all-out, or give it up as a waste of money because Muskie can't win there. The big thing that caused all the soul-searching was a private poll taken for Muskie headquarters. The results shook up the Maine senator's strategists.

COUNTDOWN learned they showed: Practically a dead heat In preference on a state-wide basis: 26 percent for Muskie, 24 percent for George Wallace, and, biggest surprise of all, 23 percent for Hubert Humphrey. Another surprise was that Henry (Scoop) Jackson was down among the also-rans, along with George McGovern, John Lindsay, Shirley Chis-holm, etal. Muskie's recognition factor (people, who know who he is) was a disappointing 73 percent, compared with 88 percent for Humphrey. The main point here, as the Muskie people see it, is that Humphrey is familiar. Since he wrote off Florida in 1968, however, he is, in effect, a new face and not a burnt-out case, as he may be considered in other parts of the country.

The upshot is that whatever Muskie's effort in Florida it will be directed primarily against Humphrey. Humphrey, touring Florida this week, figures to do" well among blacks, farmers and the legions of retired voters in the Sunshine State. Hall Too Small When Humphrey decided to make his formal announcement of candidacy in Philadelphia last week, he went on a history kick. He selected Independence Hall as the site cra-dle-of-independence theme and all that. But the deal fell through.

What with all the space needed for newsmen and TV technicians, the old place wasn't big enough. Woes Trail Lindsay Manhattan's woes are following Mayor John Lindsay to Florida. Minutes after he announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination Dec. 28, aircraft buzzed South Florida beaches streaming "Dump Lindsay" signs. They were paid for, reportedly by Forest Hills (N.Y.) property owners who are fighting Lindsay's plans for low-cast housing in their Lindsay's people are striking back by flooding book stores with copies his book, "The City," and of Jerry Bruno's book, "Advance I Man," with a cover line that 1 shouts, "Will Lindsay Beat Nixon in 1972?" Moti-Tues-Wed Special Mi HoB Golden rp mi ONE COUPON PER FAMILY chicken feed! Complete MIMljflS dinner for 4-6 hungry people 12 Pes.

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Donald (Buz) Lukens (R-Ohio). It Pays to Wait Democratic pros around the country, especially in the smaller states, have an excel- lent reason for fighting against early endorsement of this or that candidate. It may be pragmatic, even venal, but it's convincing: "Look, if we sew it all up early for one guy, why should any of the others come see us, and then what are we going to do for big-name speakers at our fund-raising dinners?" Arizona (25 delegates) is a case in point. As one of Arizona's parochial pros put it: "We'd be nuts to commit too soon." Campaign Tactics I Illinois Republican leaders are insisting that, although President Nixon says he won't ADVERTISEMENT How To Hold FALSE TEETH Securely false ttet'h embarrass you by coming loose when you eat, laugh, or talk? A denture adhesive can help. FASTEETH gives dentures a long.

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