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...bureau, searched a small town in Maryland with Democrat Barbara Mikulski, who would later win her Senate bid, as she tried to find the hall where she was supposed to speak. In Sheyenne, N. Dak. (pop. 307), Chicago Bureau Chief Jack White found supporters of successful Senatorial Aspirant Kent Conrad so enthusiastic about having a representative of the national media in their midst that they once gave the startled White a round of applause. Notes Atlanta Bureau Chief Joseph Kane: "The trouble is that just when you begin to think you know a little something, the campaign ends abruptly...
...seemed simple; in practice it required judgment, skill and luck that almost defy imagination. Some Third World jobs defy common sense. The designers of a bridge over an Indian river fail to account for winds that shake the structure apart. Faussone's description might be a passage from Joseph Conrad: "One after the other, we heard what sounded like shots from a cannon. I counted: there were six of them. It was the vertical suspensions snapping: they snapped neatly, at the level of the track, and the stumps, in the backlash, flew up toward...
State Tax Commisioner Kent Conrad ousted incumbent Mark Andrews in a race that both sides expected to be very close. Despite enormous support from the President and the national Republican party, the Democrat managed to capitalize on farm issues...
...Symms, who has taken heat for the state's economic decline as well as his reputation for a fast-paced life- style, is being challenged by Democratic Governor John Evans, a folksy moderate. In North Dakota, Senator Mark Andrews blew a 12-point lead over Democratic Tax Commissioner Kent Conrad when he erroneously claimed that grain prices had been rising and took credit for the nonexistent increase. In Missouri, the acrimonious race between former Republican Governor Christopher ("Kit") Bond and Democratic Lieutenant Governor Harriett Woods to succeed Democratic Senator Thomas Eagleton is still too close to call...
...years ago, he sank a running left-handed hook shot and decided that was the moment to retire forever. He still plays a sharp game of tennis two or three times a week. He is also, of course, a heavy reader. (Current favorites include Thucydides and some of "Conrad's more obscure works...