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...ascension for three-term Republican Congressman Paul Trible, 35, a letter-perfect Reagan loyalist, has turned into a neck-and-neck finish with Democrat Richard Davis, 61, the state's Lieutenant Governor. With a statistically insignificant two points between them in the latest polls, neither candidate leads. The boyish-looking Trible, who stalked the Republican nomination for two years, is viewed by some as transparently ambitious, with a lackluster congressional record-his 1982 absenteeism rating was 399 out of 435. By contrast, Davis, a former mortgage banker, was drafted for the Democratic nomination and had a reputation for taking...
...Series? The bases are loaded, two out, here's the pitch..." Maybe creaking a little from new age, Hernandez picked up Smith's thought and went on less cheerfully: "As a kid, that's right. But then you mature and start thinking like a man, and boyish dreams go away. Big-league ballplayers are mostly men, normal men with insecurities, doubts and weaknesses, not the gods you thought "they were. The last two years, I didn't even watch the World Series...
...boyish Congressman has lashed himself tightly to Reagan's mast, voting for every piece of the President's program. Says he: "The Administration's policies have brought inflation under control, and the prime rate reflects that fact...
...grandiose behavior stems from a boyish love of audacity and outrage, some from an outsize appetite for experience. He once told George Breece, his Washington lobbyist, "I want to live five lives. I have to hurry to get them...
...Hill's lip-with-a-quip has lost his sense of humor. His wit is as irrepressible as ever. As he deftly shaped and pushed through the Senate a loophole-closing tax bill last week, the Kansas Republican eased tense moments with one-liners, delivered with his usual boyish grin, a bob of the head and a self-deprecating chuckle. When Republican Senator John Chafee of Rhode Island protested that he could not go along with Dole's key proposal to withhold taxes on interest and dividends because his re-election literature already showed him opposing it, Dole...