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...tracksters almost did. Lucy Ashley grabbed a dramatic come-from-behind victory in the 440, edging out her Bates opponent with a time of 61.2. Grace deFries and Becky Rogers brought home third and fourth places...
...Johnson, 72, was defeated after eleven terms by California Assemblyman Eugene Chappie of Sacramento. Jim Corman, head of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, was defeated by Bobbi Fiedler, whose chief issue was opposition to court-ordered busing to desegregate schools in Los Angeles County. Ohio's Thomas ("Lud") Ashley, who as chairman of an ad hoc energy committee guided much of President Carter's energy program into law, was upset by Attorney Ed Weber of Toledo. But liberal Warhorse Morris Udall, 58, recently stricken by Parkinson's disease, beat back a strong challenge from a conservative real...
...House side, Majority Whip John Brademas (D-Ind.) and Rep. Al Ullman (D-Wash.), chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, energy specialist Rep Robert Echhardt (D-Tex.), and urban expert Rep. Thomas Ashley (D-Ohio) all lost to Republican opponents...
That men (and women, too, naturally) are products of their environment is a fact we should all know by now, but Burt Avedon's Ah, Men! goes into pedantic detail on the subject, using a few of his own thoughts but mostly those of a rather notable group, including Ashley Montagu, Helen Gurley Brown, Sterling Hayden, Gore Vidal, Michael Korda, George Plimpton, et al., in this dry, humorless tome. There are chapters on Growing Up, Work, Goals and Sex, and the quotes run from the noble (Plimpton: "I went to an English school in New York where we were taught...
...more effective campaigners for Bush is his wife Barbara, 55, who comes from a background much like his. The daughter of a wealthy publishing executive in Rye, N.Y., she graduated from the fashionable Ashley Hall school for girls in Charleston, S.C., then attended Smith College for one year. She dropped out to marry Bush over 35 years ago, after they had met at a dance while both were home on Christmas vacation. Mrs. Bush maintains that "I'm a nester" who likes nothing better than to putter around their home in Houston on weekends. Nonetheless, she campaigns tirelessly for Bush?...