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...truth was that Bush's closing strategy depended on a last-minute TV blitz in Reagan's own California, and that in turn depended on Bush's being able to raise $500,000 this month, and that possibility was rapidly disappearing. Said Bush two days after the Michigan vote: "Money is so hard to get when you have mournful predictions from others that it is all over." By then he had already arrived in New Jersey for what was to be a three-day campaign swing, but he canceled that, canceled all plans for California, and flew...
Alfred Jones, in his mid-50s, translates business letters for a chocolate concern at Lake Geneva. He lives alone, the sum of past subtractions. He lost his parents and his left hand during the London blitz in 1940; his wife died giving birth to a daughter who did not survive. Just as arbitrarily as it deprived him, life suddenly holds out a reward. He meets Anna-Luise, a beautiful woman 30 years his junior, and falls in love. More amazing still, she loves him in return. The sole threat to their happiness is the possible opposition of her father, Doctor...
...days beginning July 18, millions of Americans would be glued to their television sets, watching NBC'S coverage of the Moscow Olympics. The figures were dazzling: 1,210 commercial minutes spread over 152% hours of programming, advertising revenues of $170 million. What is more, a promotional blitz during the Games could give the network's fall lineup a rousing sendoff. Surveying his prospects a year ago, NBC President Fred Silverman predicted that the network would be in a "leadership position by Christmas...
...first half was all Crimson, Laura DiBonaventura opening up the Harvard blitz with a quick goal. Den Hartog, White and Kerry Bryan also found the Madison net, and MacMillan beat the opposing goalie three times to negate two Madison goals...
...turned out to be telling issues on primary day. A New York Times-CBS News survey of voters as they left the polls showed that people who supported Kennedy ranked jobs and inflation as the most important issues. Those concerns overwhelmed Chappaquiddick as an issue, despite a last-minute blitz of Carter TV spots in which Pennsylvanians asked questions about Kennedy's character...