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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...small minority of condo owners that was able to beat the CCA's hopes for a fifth seat; they did it more by supporting Independents number two and three on their ballot than by backing Wilkes number one. Skillful organization by many paid off; Walsh, watching the vote count Friday, said "I'm very, very pleased with how it's going...
Fifteen minutes later, a gaggle of aides rushed in from the corner office of Chief of Staff James Baker, where they had been following the vote by telephone hookup to the Senate floor. The count: 52 to 48 in favor of the sale. "Thank God!" exclaimed Reagan. Later, posing for pictures, he answered a photographer's request for "a big smile, Mr. President," by saying: "Tm trying to smile with dignity. I don't want to look jubilant." But he was downright gleeful when he dropped in on applauding aides at a party in the White House basement mess...
...Prickley barely has time with all this to book movies for Monster Chiller Horror Theater, which is hosted by Count Floyd, the dipso anchorman of the SCTV news, masquerading in vampire dress. Certainly she never has time to screen her selections. One week's entry was Dr. Tongue's 3-D House of Stewardesses, in which the actors attempted to achieve the illusion of objects flying from the screen by swaying like pendulums. This was followed by Whispers of the Wolf ("Boy, sounds really scary, eh, kids!" howled the Count), which turned out to be an essay...
...story of the old woman who, whenever her dog or cat got wet, would dry it off in the oven. Then her children bought her a microwave, with gruesome consequences. Perhaps the most popular American folk yarn, the "vanishing hitchhiker," has been around for decades (centuries, if you count the version in Acts 8: 26-39). It has been updated for the automobile age. A driver picks up a hitchhiker, usually a young woman, who sits in the back seat and says little. When the driver arrives at her destination, he turns around and finds she has vanished. Inquiring...
...between Wolf and Graham [372 votes] is just too great for her [Wolf] to make up," one member of the liberal Cambridge Civic Association (CCA), which endorsed both candidates, said when the count ended yesterday...