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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What is Jimmy Carter? The answer has become increasingly obvious: he's a human being. I'm a conservative by nature, but I'm so tired of incompetent zombies and forked-tongued manipulators inhabiting my White House, I'm going to go out and vote Carter for President. It would be nice to have a three-dimensional man in charge for a change...
Mondale overcame his initial nervousness and stiffness as the 75-minute session wore on, emphasized the Democrats' main domestic issues. "The question," he said, "is what will we do to deal with the human problems of America?" His answer, delivered with few explanatory details: Attack unemployment (while still fighting inflation); reform taxes to "bring relief to the average income earner"; improve health care, housing, education and programs for the elderly. It was a more or less standard liberal Democratic shopping list. In reply, Dole said that the American people were turned off by "promises and promises and bigger...
Where, you may ask, does that leave the heavily considered Brown contingent? For those who have watched the league and its traditional trends during recent years, the answer is a simple one. Brown plays Harvard and Dartmouth back-to-back in upcoming weeks. The Bruins have trouble with the Crimson--who doesn't? --but they haven't beaten Dartmouth since 1955. And that's not good...
...considerably warmer, yet not as crowded as one might expect on a day so close to the start of midterms. A "scab" worker--one of 17 hired by the Brown administration to keep the libraries open during the ongoing strike by nearly 60 library workers--is unable to answer a student's question about a reserve book and refers him elsewhere. The student walks into the reference room, where he dejectedly begins to pore through the card catalogue...
...Garagiola, baseball's answer to Myron Cohen, described the Reds most aptly when he said, "They tie a string to every gift. You go after it and they pull it away from you." The boys from Cincinnati were no different last night, playing Santa Claus in double-knits for the first five innings...