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Dole's Iowa campaign seems as half-hearted as his support. After Gramm surprised Dole by tying him in the Ames straw poll last August, Dole tried to beef up his statewide organization. His campaign now has local operatives in each of the state's 99 counties, but their quality is questionable. In the Le Mars area, the campaign wanted to enlist Mary Reynolds, a former g.o.p. county chairman and Dole fan. Reynolds refused when she realized she wasn't going to get the help she needed. "It was clear in our conversations that the Washington headquarters was pressuring...
...Like him or hate him (and I don't always like him), Newt Gingrich puts his money where his mouth is. It has been very refreshing to watch someone in such a high position concern himself with doing his job rather than spending time trying to beef up his approval rating. JOHN HALPIN Colorado Springs, Colorado Via E-mail...
...golf" played with glow-in-the-dark balls and "box aerobics" featuring punching bags done up to resemble well-known liberals. Hard liquor and cigars would be provided. And Ingraham told a reporter that the Saturday night Canterbury Tales Dinner Banquet would feature "wenches running around with sides of beef." There would be edifying seminars with guest speakers: "Executives from some of the fastest growing companies in the United States will tell us which regulations need to be gutted and why." Heeding the call, 350 worthies headed south...
...wasting a meal. Each time you go out to eat, you are essentially paying twice (after all, there is a well-balanced if boring meal waiting for you if you want it). After a while, everything starts to taste the same, whether it's kung-pao chicken, baron of beef or cusk (whatever the hell that is). And as we at Harvard know all too well, diversity is desirable...even in food. A person can handle only so much shake-and-bake...
...Washington mansion of auto dealer Mandell Ourisman and his wife Mary, a former official of GOPAC, the political-action committee Gingrich headed until last May. The occasion was a fund raiser for his newest PAC, called Monday Morning. For a couple of pleasant hours the guests picked at their beef tenderloin, admired the Ourismans' baby grand piano and chatted up the most powerful man in Congress. At $1,000 a couple, the posh event yielded more than $30,000 in campaign money for G.O.P. congressional candidates...