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...experts like Richard Scammon, of the Elections Research Center, fault the decline of the party system for the rising influence of the handlers. The bosses used to pick the candidates, and the party apparatus did the rest. There was established through the party a direction and meaning. Now the contenders have to make their own approach, so they go shopping for the consultants...
...Nonvocal communication is necessary in experiments with apes because their vocal apparatus cannot produce the wide range of sounds that characterizes a spoken language...
...nationalists admitted that Soames' firmness had helped hold the cease-fire on course. But Soames has also been severely criticized by the nationalists and their African sympathizers for his seeming partiality toward the white Rhodesians, whom he has allowed to control the country's civil service, government apparatus, security forces and pro-Muzorewa auxiliaries...
...broom handle. Knowing that any sudden movement of the fence would set off an electric alarm, he propped the ladder near a gatepost for added support. He shinnied up and, with his hand as steady as a surgeon's, used his broom-handle-toothbrush apparatus to disconnect the alarm system. Then he cut through some strands of barbed wire. With a final leap, Christopher Boyce, 26, a spy convicted in one of the most important espionage cases in the past decade, disappeared into the night...
...Reagan fails to win the nomination, Sears will get much of the blame. More than the manager of any other presidential candidate, he totally controls his man's campaign apparatus. Says Reagan Press Secretary Jim Lake: "He has the strongest will and the strongest mind. He's the board chairman among the staff...