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Reagan advisers and political analysts tend to agree that Bush's nomination represents a triumph of electoral logic over sentiment. (Bush was chosen, for instance, over Sen. Paul Laxalt (R-Nev.), a close friend and ideological cohort of Reagan whose selection would have put two conservative Westerners on the ticket.) A Texas oil industry, Bush has the advantage of a split geographical background. While a presidential candidate, he won six primaries--including those in the key states of Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and Michigan--and is being counted on to help Reagan in those areas where the former California governor is weakest...
...analyses indicate that recruiting could become more difficult. In 1978 some 2.14 million American males reached age 18. This year, the figure will decline to 2.13 million, and by 1992 it will fall to 1.61 million. Not until this century's final year will the 18-year-old male cohort rise to 1.9 million. Recruiting more women will compensate for part of the drop in available males, but some experts caution that the quality of female recruits may also go down as the numbers rise. Women currently account for 7.4% of the armed services, up from...
...Hufstedler, heretofore vaguer in conversations with the press, chooses words and plans that belie the fact that, prior to December, she had little if any exposure to such issues. For the next decade, the "biggest single problem facing post-secondary education is demographics," she says, noting that the age cohort that would ordinarily be headed to college "has diminished drastically;" some estimate it will decline nationally by 20 per cent in the next decade. Small liberal arts colleges will only survive if they redefine their missions or join in consortia with others faced with similar woes. If Hufstedler's refreshing...
...when he was president of The Crimson, Maccoby and an accomplice engineered the theft of the famed Ibus, which sits atop the Lampoon Castle. Maccoby was, in turn, abducted by Lampoon editors. After a daring escape, Maccoby and his cohort flew to New York and presented the bird to the Russian delgation to the U.N. as "a sort of American bird of peace," on behalf of the Lampoon, requesting it be placed on the spire of the new Moscow University. The Lampoon president, John H. Updike '54, who was not amused, lodged an international protest and secured the bird from...
...Reagan's ideological cohort-men like Nevada Senator Paul Laxalt and North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms-could never accept the know-it-all interloper. They kept sniping at him. They complained that while Sears was vainly trying to win over Eastern moderates, he was alienating the conservative faithful. They blamed Sears for a TV ad in which Reagan commented on economic policy: "We have to move ahead, but we can't leave anyone behind." Griped a Reagan operative: "It made Reagan sound like a liberal...