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...last point," he says, his voice making its usual high climb but betraying no awareness that he is about to deliver the line of his life: "This is an exciting choice." Quickly he looks down at the rostrum, hunting for the next sentence in the speech. He continues: "I want to build a future." Wait. The audience is clapping. Walter Mondale appears surprised. They seem to be giving an ovation to his previous remark. Perking up like a bird, he acknowledges the woman standing to his right, as if seeing her for the first time. He smiles, she smiles back...
...having caved in to feminist pressure if he chooses a woman vice-presidential candidate, or of grievously disappointing many of his female followers if he does not. Until the convention is over, Mondale's backers will be nervous about what the mercurial Jackson might do; even if Jackson does climb aboard the Mondale bandwagon, he might turn out to be more of a liability than an asset on the campaign trail...
...clear implication was that if Soviet President Konstantin Chernenko would just climb up, the two world leaders could sit together at the summit and begin to thaw the big chill between the superpowers. Reagan's calming words marked a clear departure from his old hard line against a summit. But few experts expected the new tone to lead to a superpower sitdown any time soon...
...Fourth of July, he will start the Daytona Beach Firecracker 400 stock-car race by telephone from Air Force One. The President's jet is scheduled to land at the airport within camera range of the track, and if all goes smoothly, the onetime sportscaster might even climb into the announcer's booth and call a few laps. Smiles a Reagan campaign official: "That ought to be seen at some point by millions of good, solid, Middle Americans." But that is nothing. Some 2 billion are expected to see him as he opens the Olympic Games...
Many experts believe that the recent job trends will continue for the foreseeable future. Service-industry jobs should climb to 73% of the work force by 1995, vs. some 70% today. Major gainers are expected to be secretaries, cashiers, nurses and salesclerks, according to projections of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Manufacturing employment's share, meanwhile, is likely to hold steady. The decline in basic industries should be offset by gains in such growing fields as medical and dental instruments, computers and communications gear...