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Mondale was buoyed again by a rousing response from some 3,000 United Steelworkers at their annual convention in Cleveland. He accused Reagan of neglecting the steel industry's problems with a policy that amounts to "Let it rust." Added Mondale: "Four years ago, when he was running for President, Mr. Reagan went to Youngstown and said, 'I won't forget you.' Well, he didn't until just after the election. And he's forgotten you for four years. Now it's your turn to forget him on Nov. 6." At Texas Southern...
MANY OBJECTIONS to the welfare state are procedural, rather than philosophical. Reagan's anecdote about the "welfare queen" in Cleveland who was receiving 27 Social Security checks (or was it 33?) is an attack on the mismanagement or misdesign of the welfare state--not an attack on the welfare state itself. The present welfare machinery might not be the best, and we should be willing to change it. But the inefficiency of this welfare state should not be misconstrued as an indictment of all welfare states...
Twelve roles in two hours might seem a bit draining on the bodily battery juice, but this cove has been hoofing this horse since the turn of the decade, from Australia to Asia by way of Cleveland. In fact, Duke is the one who taped the show together from the words of the Wodehouse chappie...
...Cleveland 7, Minnesota...
Taylor is the only man who ever outrushed Jim Brown in a National Football League season, Brown's infirm year of 1962, when the Cleveland runner gained only 996 yds. Over nine seasons, back when N.F.L. schedules were two to four games shorter, Brown accumulated 12,312 yds. in 2,359 carries, an average of 5.2. At the top of his game after gathering 1,544 yds. and 21 touchdowns to become the M.V.P. of 1965, he called a press conference on the movie set of The Dirty Dozen and retired at 29. Brown had always been something...