Word: bells
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...MacArthur High the shiny corridors echo emptily after 2:30. Many teachers and students leave as soon as possible after the last bell. "I'm working hard not to take it out on the students," says one lanky high school teacher. He is wearing a defiant lapel button picturing two crossed boards. (One of the school board members allegedly threatened to hit the teachers' union with a two-by-four, then hit it again with a four-by-six when it was down.) Other teachers wear buttons reading I GAVE TO LEVITTOWN. So far, more than 20 teachers...
Perhaps the correspondents' most pleasant memories of the 1978 election are held by two men with greatly dissimilar experience. Senior Correspondent Jim Bell, who rode the Wendell Willkie presidential train in 1940, believes this year's Senate race in Massachusetts between Edward Brooke and Paul Tsongas was the fairest and most honorable campaign he has ever seen. "The two candidates," says Bell, "ended up the way they started: gentlemen...
Some of the most prominent over-promisers went down to resounding defeat. In the New Jersey Senate race, Jeff Bell, perhaps the most avid proponent of Kemp-Roth, was beaten by former Basketball Star Bill Bradley, who proposed more modest tax cuts. Perry Duryea, the G.O.P. candidate for Governor of New York, promised to increase welfare grants and reduce taxes at the same time. The victorious incumbent, Hugh Carey, refrained from any such foolishness. In Arkansas, Bill Clinton, 32, was elected the nation's youngest Governor, even though he vowed to ask for a tax increase if a referendum reducing...
...same way. In campaigning as a Democrat for the U.S. Senate, Bradley was not eloquent, inspirational or innovative. But he studied the issues, plugged away with a left-of-center pitch and barely stopped to sleep. Aided by his well-known name and voters' distrust of Republican Nominee Jeffrey Bell's advocacy of the Kemp-Roth 30% tax-rate cut, Bradley won. Two days after his victory, he was back pounding streets and visiting plant gates to thank people for their votes. Despite his lack of natural political abilities, Bradley could become a successful Senator by applying this same kind...
...sizable number of candidates in this fall's campaign displayed an amazing reticence about letting the voters know what their party was; the affiliation was widely regarded as either an encumbrance or an irrelevance. In New Jersey, a voter reading one key piece of Senatorial Candidate Jeffrey Bell's literature could not have told whether he was running as a Republican or a Rosicrucian...