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King has clearly staked out the right on fiscal and social issues. In a two-man race, Dukakis would inherit by default the left, a constituency he has not yet clearly earned. Riding on a crest of popularity, Dukakis has successfully ducked substantive discussion of the key issues in the race--taxes, education, housing, criminal reform. The major campaign change he says he intends to make over his ill-fated 1978 bid is that he will try harder to get elected--he has not said he would change any of his old stances if elected. O'Neill, on the other...
...several hundred people. Florida's fortunes ballooned again after World War II, in part because a new wave of doughboys hit its beaches. From 1950 to 1960 the population of South Florida doubled to 1.5 million, and during the 1960s swelled to 2.2 million. The wave has yet to crest. South Florida grew at an annual rate of 44% during the 1970s, four times the national average, to its present 3.3 million...
...someone shoveling gravel. But when U.C.L.A. Ornithologist Jared Dia mond crept forward for a closer look, he encountered a bizarre and beautiful spectacle. As he reported at a news conference in Washington, D.C., last week, there in a mile-high rain forest in western New Guinea was a golden-crested male bird about the size of a bluejay . It was standing in front of a remarkable structure of its own making, a 4-ft.-high bower of long sticks and fronds, shaped like a Maypole around a sapling and surrounded by three piles of artfully arranged fruit- blue, green...
Oklahoma City Attorney John Merritt had a problem. He had to prove that his now paralyzed client had been going only 45 m.p.h., the legal limit, when he wrecked his car trying to avoid a county maintenance truck parked just over the crest of a hill. The defendants, owners of the truck, insisted that the driver must have been doing more than 85 m.p.h. A solution came to Merritt one day as he watched Hollywood Stunt Man Alan Gibbs put a car through a midair roll on TV. Why not have Gibbs re-enact the accident on videotape? That...
UMass has always been thorn in the Crimson's side. In 1978, Harvard, riding the crest of a two-season, fifteen game winning streak--still the longest in the team's history--lost to the Minutemen in a 2-1 heartstopper...