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...Anderson off the ballot in 13 key states, including California, New York and Ohio. Anderson already is on the ballot in Kansas, New Jersey and Utah. For Reagan, Carter has settled on a more aggressive strategy. The President's aides will keep reminding voters this summer about the Californian's more outrageous statements, like his proposal that the U.S. blockade Cuba in retaliation against the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Then, come fall, Carter himself will pound away at Reagan as a dangerous extremist...
Michael Overstreet, 31, never a member, is on the stand. He is heavy, with a wistful, drooping mustache, and he wears a western shirt over a clean T shirt. Overstreet is a fourth-generation Californian with an eleventh-grade education and a year at Heald Engineering College in San Francisco. In his testimony, Overstreet reveals that he has had a somewhat hazy "employment" record: delivering rental cars, work at a packing plant, stretches of unemployment, some "wheeling and dealing" in things like drugs, guns, appliances and cars...
...runner in key industrial states, just as he did in Pennsylvania, where he stumped for 14 days and spent nearly $1 million, vs. four days and $100,000 by Reagan. Bush figures that he can spend six times more than Reagan on politicking in the remaining contests because the Californian has already come closer to the $17 million federal limit on primary spending than Bush...
...bearing the vice-presidential seal (a gift from Nelson Rockefeller), has repeatedly brushed aside suggestions that he would settle for the No. 2 spot. Says he: "No way." But a close aide says that Bush might be willing to join the Reagan ticket in the end because of the Californian...
...Anthropologist Yehudi Cohen offers a simplified pseudohistorical argument: the taboo is a holdover of a primitive need to form personal alliances and trade agreements beyond the family. Since that is no longer necessary, he says, "human history suggests that the incest taboo may indeed be obsolete." Joan Nelson, a Californian who holds an M.A. in psychology from Antioch, has a special interest in the subject. She has launched the Institute for the Study of Sexual Behavior, and has passed out questionnaires looking for "good or bad" incestuous experiences...