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...running at 11%. Our dollar is teetering at 760 (U.S.). But what had surfaced as one of the most contentious election issues in the first month of the campaign was Prime Minister John Turner's having been seen to pat Liberal Party President lona Campagnolo on the bum. Actually, Turner's condescending gesture reeked more of country club bonhomie, circa 1950, than unbridled lechery. It would be worrying only if he were running for principal of a girls' high school. But Brian Mulroney, understandably, has made the most of it, puffed out with indignation against this unspeakable...
...something a ten-year-old would do," complained Activist Doris Anderson. Other prospective victims designed a "bum wrap," special form-fitting cardboard shield to be worn as a rear guard against the Turner touch. The glad-hander's explanation of his cheekiness: "I'm a hugger. I'm a tactile politician I'm reaching out to people...
Looking mighty Establishment in his white open-collar shirt and navy-blue suit, John Carlos sits at a table in the headquarters of the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee, where he now works. Behind one shoulder the American flag, behind the other the Olympic. But for a bum ankle, he says, he could still tear up the track. The last time we saw John Carlos was 1968 on a podium in Mexico City, standing in the grainy evening light rigid as an exclamation point. The black-power salute; an antique of the '60s. He is speaking of something else...
...hurled at the U.S. by TASS and Pravda, whole platoons of Soviet scholars, lawyers, journalists, scientists and even a priest or two have been visiting the U.S. in recent weeks and pounding away at the party line: Relations are awful and getting worse; Reagan is to blame; throw the bum out; otherwise, who knows what disasters may ensue...
Bought by Millionaire Oilman Clint Murchison for $600,000 in 1960, the Dallas Cowboys were sold for some $75 million last week to an eleven-member local consortium headed by Multimillionaire H.R. ("Bum") Bright, who likened the purchase to art collecting ("You can enjoy it even though you didn't paint it"), and promised not to call any plays. "It will provide some return but not a good one," said Bright, whose 17% constitutes the largest share. "You would do better in Government bonds...