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...useful introduction to this new edition provides an account of Childers' tragic later career in the Irish Rebel lion. An Anglo-Irishman educated in England, Childers was a driven and complex idealist whose life ended in front of a firing squad near Dublin in 1922. Along with his Bostonian wife Dorothy, Childers had run arms into Ire land by sailboat before World War I. After serving with distinction in the Royal Navy, he again took up the cause of Irish liberty. Childers, in fact, pressed so hard for total Irish independence after the Free State compromise that he became...
...every region except the South, where people are excited about a presidential candidate from Dixie. Despite drives to sign up new voters, the registration totals, compared with 1972 figures, are expected to drop by well over 1 million people in New York and 600,000 in California. Said a Bostonian who has been trying to enroll voters: "It's shoveling against the tide...
...speaks of love, healing and balanced budgets and the angry populist Carter who laces into the fat cats and promises Government programs that sound expensive. Perhaps Carter's worst problem is still the fact that most voters do not feel they know him. Admits Gerard Doherty, the Bostonian directing the Carter campaign in New York: "People still feel they haven't seen him or smelled...
...least $18.5 million (about $10 million of that for Ford). Perhaps in an effort to keep their smalltown, mainstream images unsullied, both candidates have avoided the sophisticated agencies of Madison Avenue. Carter's adman is Atlanta-based Gerald Rafshoon, while the Ford campaign is being handled by Bostonian Malcolm MacDougall...
...Manhattanite Kathryn Bridgman, 25, "Ford exuded the personality of an overcooked noodle." But Bostonian Sam Jones, 28, felt the President "sounded much better than usual." Nettie Goldstein, 63, of Skokie, Ill., dozed through some questions, but what she saw led her to conclude that "they both came off very well." Frank Amarillas, 39, of Douglas, Ariz., disagreed. Said he: "Carter shouldn't grin because it's a gentlemen's debate. Grinning hurt...