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...favored to be re-elected to the Senate by Tennessee voters next November, would hardly offend the right wing (his recent ratings by Americans for Constitutional Action have ranged from 86% to 94%). He is against school busing, increases in foreign aid and licensing of handguns. But Brock is colorless as a campaigner, and if he withdrew from the Senate race, his seat could be captured by the Democrats...
...that reason it is hard to get a firm fix on the men and the issues in the presidential campaign. Trouble etches leaders, destroys the weak, brings out hidden strengths in others, nurtures daring and innovative contenders. Contentment (or anyway, relative contentment) tends to encourage phony issues and colorless candidates...
...compounds have been accumulating in the environment for more than 45 years. In commercial production since 1929, the colorless, odorless, syrupy PCBs were once widely used in industry as softeners in plastics, paints and rubber, as additives in printing inks, and in oils used in the preparation of laboratory slides...
There was little else available to explain the triumph of colorless Scoop. Meanwhile, his talk of a restoration of The Grand New Deal coalition supporting his candidacy seemed inane, in that Roxbury blacks gave Carter a plurality, professional liberals flocked to Udall and even most Jews made Jackson only their second choice...
...duel was a dramatic test for both. A conscientious but colorless prosecutor, Browning had been overshadowed throughout the trial by Defense Attorney F. Lee Bailey. Browning had not tried a case in six years; instead, he administered the work of his assistants. San Francisco lawyers tended to dismiss him with faint praise ("Jim-well, he's a nice guy"). But the prosecutor was stubbornly confident he would win: he had the facts, he liked to say. Bailey himself had posed the problem that would face Browning when he began the cross-examination that lasted two days. If Browning pressed...