The Prey  First, send out direct mail potshots that compare
Labor Board candidate Bill Gould's scholarly writings with "Mein
Kampf." Follow up by dropping some press bait: he's a gambler, a
black radical; he takes bribes and meets with Reds. Stay hungry,
and you may even bag the big game: the Clinton presidency.  Palo
Alto, Calif.; Sept. 28, 1993: The telephone rang in his quiet
Stanford University home just as Bill Gould stepped out of the
shower. The professor of labor law felt the alarm that early-
morning calls bring, the stab of fear that something may be
wrong with someone you love.  His alarm was replaced by mild
annoyance, though, when the caller turned out to be Mark
Childress, who was not Gould's favorite person. Childress was
counsel for the U.S. Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee.
Gould was to appear before the committee in three days to begin
hearings as President Clinton's nominee to head the National
Labor Relations Board.  Advertise on  Childress worked for Sen.
Edward Kennedy, who as L