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Bill Bradley, 35, was no flashy superstar as a New York Knicks basketball forward. He was no intellectual whiz kid as a Rhodes scholar. But on the court and in college, the son of a Republican banker in Crystal City, Mo., proved steady, persistent?and successful. His political career in New Jersey has begun the same way. In campaigning as a Democrat for the U.S. Senate, Bradley was not eloquent, inspirational or innovative. But he studied the issues, plugged away with a left-of-center pitch and barely stopped to sleep. Aided by his well-known name and voters' distrust...
...whole question sounds very complicated, and no doubt the administration will try to delay and defuse the issue by emphasizing its complexity. In fact, the contradictions are crystal-clear. Manufacturers Hanover's policy is to make, renew and extend loans to the South African government. Harvard has promised to divest itself of bonds in banks that have such a policy. Yet Harvard continues to hold $11 million in Manufacturers Hanover bonds...
...incident was inexplicable until Crystal Gray, who lived in the house in back of Matthews', went to the police and said she apparently was the intended victim. She was one of the witnesses in the murder of Prostitute Kathleen Smith. The assassins had attacked the wrong house...
Hugh Sidey's article, "In Jerry's Crystal Ball" [Oct. 16], has to be a tongue-in-cheek story about Jerry Ford. How could he possibly reminisce about what he would have done if he had been given an other four years? He had more time in the presidency than Carter has had, yet what we got from former President Ford was swine flu shots with paralyzing after effects and WIN buttons...
...past five years Pat has been expanding, and trying to beat the wild fluctuations in crop prices, in another way: bringing to the farm lands the concept known in industry as vertical integration. Like other growers, he resented having to take his beets for milling to the nearby American Crystal Sugar Co. plant. One reason: the company's officers, then based in Denver, insisted on shutting down the mills on weekends, even during harvest time when beets must be ground up quickly before they rot. Recalls Pat: "We were at the mercy of people a thousand miles away who just...