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That was about the cheeriest sentiment Americans could manage last week, as the country caroled, gift-wrapped and tinseled its way through the holidays in search of some deeper tidings of comfort and joy. For those with a global perspective, there is plenty to inspire gratitude this season: the country is not (yet) at war; there are families in Romania, Germany, Hungary and Czechoslovakia sharing the holidays in freedom and safety for the first time; Frank Sinatra just celebrated his 75th birthday. But try as they will to count blessings, many Americans who read the newspapers, check their bank statements...
Perhaps the cheeriest thought for the Democrats, as images of the convention fade from TV screens and delegates return home, is that more than three months remain before the election. In modern politics, that is half an eternity. Just about anything can happen, as witness the dizzying twists and jolting turns of the Democratic primary season. Certainly three months ago, hardly anyone thought the Democratic vice-presidential nominee would be a woman named Geraldine Ferraro. But it will take something almost as unexpected to prevent the tears of Democratic joy and pride that flowed last week in San Francisco from...
Among the cheeriest businessmen are energy company executives. They have hopes that an Administration with a pronounced free-market economic philosophy will bring into being many items on their wish list, including stepped-up leasing of federal lands for oil and gas exploration, the easing of burdensome environmental rules and perhaps even a cut in the windfall-profits tax on the rising revenues from "old" crude oil. But a good many oilmen look for relief in these areas not so much from a G.O.P. White House as from conservatives who will be replacing anti-oil company liberals on key committees...
...without Humphrey," observed Senator-elect Durenberger. But he predicted: "It's going to take a few years for the D.F.L. to react to the loss of Hubert, and then it will be back." Republicans nonetheless had reason to savor their good fortune. One of the cheeriest of all was former Governor Harold Stassen, the boy wonder of Minnesota politics in 1938, before his party was routed by Humphrey's D.F.I Vowed the never-give-up Stassen: "We are going to rebuild the Republican Party in Minnesota." Stassen, 71, was so buoyed by his old party's rebirth...
...role of Tarzan. Moore, who is also an adept pianist, parodies half a dozen great composers as they might have written the Colonel Bogey March, and Cook does his lugubriously farcical monologue about the miner who dreamed of becoming a judge. A good Good Evening, indeed, with the cheeriest imaginable company...