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...fall of 1825. Nominated for the presidency as the candidate of the South and West, he had tallied 99 electoral votes, more than any of his three competitors. But his failure to gain an outright majority threw the election into the House of Representatives, where Henry Clay--a distant fourth-place finisher in the initial balloting--donated his votes to John Quincy Adams, allowing the New Englander to sneak off with the keys to the White House...
...White House as visitors than any other President in history. Records show he has held more televised news conferences -59-and had his picture taken individually with more people than any of his predecessors. He cites the facts himself, proudly, as if they prove that he is not the distant figure his critics depict...
...candidates related to any former athletes? Yes. Ronald Reagan is a distant cousin of former Cubs and Dodgers Pitcher Phil Regan. Jimmy Carter is the step-brother of boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, and John Anderson's twin brother Sparky manages the Detroit Tigers...
Unsatisfied, Sagan went off to the library and asked for a book on the stars. The librarian gave him one on the Hollywood variety: Jean Harlow and Clark Gable. When he finally got the right book, he learned that the stars were enormously distant suns. "This just blew my mind. Until then, my universe had been my neighborhood. Now I tried to imagine how far away I'd have to move the sun to make it as faint as a star. I got my first sense of the immensity of the universe. I was hooked...
Still, for all his extracurricular interests, including a young biologist named Lynn Alexander whom he would shortly marry, Sagan was a highly productive researcher. As always, he was iconoclastic. Although most astronomers were studying the more distant realms of the stars and galaxies, Sagan opted for the nearby planets, under the tutelage of the late Gerard Kuiper. He realized that planets were the most likely places for extraterrestrial life to be found in his lifetime. He also anticipated that the U.S. would soon embark on an ambitious program of planetary exploration. At a party just before Sputnik I spurred American...