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...master-of-ceremonies at the Christopher Columbus Community Center on Prince Street looked like he was making his last speech and insisted on telling morbid jokes. ("I was in the hospital six weeks, even. With two operations they couldn't kill me.") With the aid of an equally frail assistant, this doddering Johnny Carson finally sputtered Jimmy Carter's name. The President rose to remind 1000 senior citizens that they should be thrilled to be alive and loyal Democrats. He did it brilliantly...
...offensive line of the Columbus High football team stood shoulder to shoulder with Maffei in the narrow, winding street. Their smooth, helmet-like coifs bobbed several inches above the crowd as they jousted playfully. The young bucks and the slightly older working men and women who stood behind them cared little about Carter's dedication to Social Security or Medicare. In fact, when the presidential entourage emerged into the mid-day sunshine it was Ted Kennedy and not the candidate who received the warmest reception. The most favorite of all New England sons provoked a particularly loud round of cheering...
Unfazed, Carter offers "to make a deal" with the high schoolers--a Presidential day-off-from-class in exchange for the students' support. Fists raised, the entire Friars squadbellowedits approval and led a cheer of "Jim-my...Jim-my!" Only the robed priests who run Columbus High and unwittingly allowed their charges to sell their political souls for a day of hookie looked uncomfortable. Carter began a tirade against third-party candidates (e.g. John Anderson) with an attentive, cheerful audience...
Patti Lyons-Catalano broke the women's 10,000-meter road race record by five seconds Monday as she breezed to victory in the annual Columbus Day event...
...that the Vikings have had a bad press. That is what happens when you fall foul of Irish reviewers. No people in Western history, perhaps, had more of a reputation for mayhem and brutishness. Their longships ranged from Greenland to Byzantium and Kiev; they reached America 500 years before Columbus; and virtually everywhere they went, their greed and implacable cruelty stank in the nostrils of their victims...