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Nevada's conservative Senator Paul Laxalt obliquely noted two of Reagan's image problems as he guided the Californian on the Hill. "You're not talking about a right-wing nut with horns out of his ears," said Laxalt, "but a responsible conservative whose age may be a problem." Reagan, 67, is only six years older than Connally, but when he called on Tennessee's Howard Baker, 53, who also has presidential ambitions, the Senator's press aide could not resist joking to reporters: "The two had a father-son talk...
...term displaced homemaker was invented by another Californian, Tish Sommers, 64, who was divorced at 57 and "discovered I was part of an invisible problem, one of the women who had fallen through the cracks, too young for social security, too old to be hired, not eligible for unemployment insurance because homemaking is not considered work." Also ineligible for welfare because she was not disabled and had no children under 18, caught in the double bind of age and sex discrimination, she saw that she belonged to both the middle class and the economically handicapped. With Laurie Shields...
Inevitably, the peculiarly American and Californian ambience caught the eye of many foreign observers. California, noted the Statesman of India with considerable accuracy, is "the home of a hundred strange cults from the merely dotty to the disgusting." A reflection along similar lines prompted Columnist Mustafa Amin of Egypt's al Akhbar to wonder why Jones had not been stopped earlier by the police or the CIA. Yet France's daily Le Monde, which is frequently critical of American policy, found the massacre "unAmerican." Said the paper: "It would have been inconceivable, and without doubt unrealizable...
...year's Eastern champ in the 400-yd. individual medley, commenced his second season for Harvard by winning two of his other specialties, the 500-yd. and 1000-yd. freestyles, in impressive fashion last Saturday. Add to this duo three-time high school All-American freshman Tim Maximoff, fellow Californian Phil Atkinson, and local hero Jack Gauthier (see freshman profiles), and you can understand why opponents will be seeing red when they think of what the championship finals in the 200, 500, and 1650-yd. freestyles will look like at Easterns this year...
Early in the second quarter, it looked like Cuccia would be sacked behind the line of scrimmage, but he escaped and scooted 48 yards past dumbfounded Bruin defenders to Brown's 28-yd. line. The stand-out Californian was injured on the play, suffering a partially separated shoulder, but he said after the game he "definitely" would be back for the Yale game in two weeks...