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...candidates. Unhappily, the evidence does not quite bear out their theory. It is true that several of the very biggest spenders lost. Among them: Republicans William Clements and Lewis Lehrman, who shelled out around $12.5 million each on the Texas and New York gubernatorial races; Democrat Mark Dayton, a department-store heir who laid out $6.9 million in an attempt to become a U.S. Senator from Minnesota, and Democrat Adam Levin, 33, a lawyer who poured as much as $1.5 million into his effort to win a House seat in New Jersey...
...with the Midas touch arrived on the Dayton campus in the fall of 1977 to take over a football program that had not had a winning season since man had touched lunar turf. That first year, the team went 8-3 Then 9-2-1 Then 8-2-1 And in 1980. Rick Carter arrived on the national scene by coaching the Flyers to a 140 mark and the NCAA Division 3 National Championship, including a 63-0 win over Ithaca in the finals...
...have lost his way en route to a community-theater production of The Pirates of Penzance, but convinces the incredulous Peluce of his credentials by whisking him off to Egypt, 1450 B.C., where they discover Moses in the bulrushes; France, 1918, where they frolic during World War Iand Dayton, where they peek in on a couple of querulous Wright brothers and help get them flying. The youngster, of course knows all about history, while the oft-addled time traveler ("Smokin' bats-breath! This isn't 1492!") makes up in grit what he lacks in gray matter...
...Dayton, an aging factory located near Interstate 75 has been converted into a 20-unit outlet mall, offering luggage, draperies, clothing and even power tools at 50% to 70% below retail. Says Sanford Mendelson, whose family bought the building from General Motors last year: "People who never stopped in Dayton when passing by are now stopping like crazy...
...virtual unknown when he was elected in 1978 to fill the unexpired term of the late Hubert Humphrey, Durenberger has emerged as a thoughtful moderate Republican and a Senator of skill and character. Although Durenberger has his quarrels with the Administration's economic program, Dayton is trying to make the campaign into a referendum on Reaganomics. Low grain price's and high interest rates are forcing Minnesota farmers to the wall, while the depressed steel industry has led to rising unemployment among iron-ore miners. Calling for increased federal support for wheat and dairy farmers, Dayton quips...