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And Resurrection City II in Miami Beach, 1972

Another dispatch from the events outside the Democratic Convention, Miami Beach, 1972. Excerpted from columns originally posted in the student-run independent newspaper, the Colorado Daily, in Boulder. A 22-year-old's audition to be one of The Boys on the Bus.

MIAMI BEACH –– The smell on Collins Avenue is cold turkey in search of a power fix. And the night before the convention, it throbs through the nostril like Canoe cheek-to-cheek at a junior high dance.

The stench is strongest around certain hotels. The Carillon, for example, has in beaming lights: "Welcome Future President [Hubert] Humphrey. Less pompous on the outside, but no less dramatic, the lights on the Doral say it simply: "McGovern."

Further down the strip, it's loser's alley. Scoop Jackson headquarters at the glum Montmarte while North Carolina's Terry Sanford hangs out at the DeLido, which had seen better days. . .

Shirley Chisholm [Brooklyn Congresswman and the first black woman to run for president at a major party conven…