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Though his crowds were generally large and friendly, they displayed little of the frenzied excitement that certifies they will turn out at the polls. The main lingering residue of the ill-advised Playboy interview was ridicule, perpetuated in a bumper-sticker revision of Barry Goldwater's 1964 campaign theme: IN HIS HEART, HE KNOWS YOUR WIFE. Volunteers, with no overriding issue to turn them on and a candidate who frequently turns them off, were hard to come by everywhere. There is some confusion between the relatively conservative Carter who speaks of love, healing and balanced budgets and the angry...
...Bullpen -- Two strong bullpens are led by Manny Sarmiento (2.06 ERA), Rawley Eastwick (2.08) and Pedro Borbon (3.31) for Cincinnati, and Ron Reed (2.46), Tug McGraw (2.51) and Gene Garber (2.81) for Philadelphia. Although McGraw has postseason experience, Eastwick stands out in this bumper crop of firemen to give the Reds a slim edge in the relief department...
...this is the first day of the convention and the delegates are excited: waving flags, crying "hear! hear!", reveling in a pale imitation of the pageantry of a real national convention. 'Register Kissinger not Firearms,' 'The Rock Owns a Piece of Me,' and 'Don't Re-elect Anybody' bumper stickers; dead-babies' ingarbage-cans armbands; plastic gold noose lapel pins (for 'Public Officials convicted for treason'); pistol tie clips...
...farmers economically, such as people employed by farm suppliers and food processors. Four years ago, farmers gave Richard Nixon 71% of their votes. But farmers usually vote for the incumbent party only when farm prices are high. Lately, prices have been running below 1975 levels as buyers anticipate bumper harvests of corn and wheat and lower demand from abroad for U.S. grain because of good harvests in the Soviet Union and India. Last week, September wheat contracts closed in Chicago at $3.19 a bushel, down from $4.13 a year...
ASIA, on the other hand, has seen the return of the monsoons in much of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, which is moving toward self-sufficiency in food production. Bumper rice crops are expected in Thailand and Taiwan this year...