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...Maine will be among the first of the target areas. Three hundred volunteer alumni will form class committees and train themselves in the fine art of fundraising. After several meetings, the volunteers will sponsor a dinner, in an attempt to clinch other area alumni gifts. Each alumnus in the Bangor area will receive a formal case statement on the drive--and then a donation envelope. The whole process should take about six months, Boardman says, adding that virtually the same agenda will be followed lin 76 other areas of the country during the course of the next two years...
...Maine will be among the first of the target areas. Three hundred volunteer alumni will form class committees and train themselves in the fine art of fundraising. After several meetings, the volunteers will sponsor a dinner, in an attempt to clinch other area alumni gifts. Each alumnus in the Bangor area will receive a formal case statement on the drive--and then a donation envelope. The whole process should take about six months, Boardman says, adding that virtually the same agenda will be followed lin 76 other areas of the country during the course of the next two years...
Harris was by no means alone in his discomfiture this election year. Polls in Iowa before the January caucuses showed Ronald Reagan slightly ahead of George Bush; instead Bush won by 31%-29%. In the Maine caucuses, the Bangor Daily News had Carter ahead of Kennedy by 19 points the weekend before the voting; Carter beat Kennedy by only 6%. In New Hampshire, a Boston Globe poll put Reagan and Bush almost neck and neck the Sunday before the election; Reagan walloped Bush...
...done by members of the press, but only after they spoke with a small but powerful group that might as well be called the Knowledgeable Observers, or K.O.s. After Carter beat Kennedy in Iowa by 27 points, the K.O.s immediately pronounced the Massachusetts Senator as hurt badly. The Bangor, Me., News went one step further and published a poll of the state's Democrats two days before the caucuses showing Carter leading Kennedy 52% to 33%. Expectations plummeted. By caucus day it was predicted that Kennedy would be routed by Carter. When he lost by "only" 3.4 points...
From Bangkok to Bangor, investors are buying up gold−and paying record prices for it. Scarcely a week goes by without a fresh blast of bad news to push up the value of the mystic metal that thrives on crisis. Viet Nam's invasion of Cambodia, which began late in December, was one such event, but gold's biggest boost lately has been the winter-long turmoil in Iran. As investors have grown fearful of another energy crunch, the price has surged from under $200 per oz. in mid-autumn to a record $254 two weeks...