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...dream, but it hasn't happened. Brown's late effort in the Maine caucuses brought him 13 per cent of the Democratic vote. Supporters say he's got to pull at least that much in tomorrow's contest. But the latest Boston Globe poll finds the California governor a distant third with a measly 6 per cent. It is time, as the Brown people will tell us Wednesday morning, to reassess the campaign: facing the inevitable might be a better description...
...relocation of the oblique muslcles, which Greene claims is a relatively simple operation. Another is to flare surgically the point of attachment of these muscles, dispersing the strain. McMahon and Greene also talk about prescribing prismatic eyeglasses, lenses which dupe the eyes into "thinking" they are focused on a distant point. These solutions remain speculative, but for the 30 to 40 per cent of all Americans who suffer from myopia, hope is in sight...
...Friday, blitz the state over the weekend, and hand you your ass on Tuesday." That's how one Carter aide described him in 1976, when Brown upset Jimmy Carter in five primaries. Those victories, astounding for a man who had been governor of California barely six months, are now distant, almost absurd memories...
...news spigots have been turned off in Afghanistan too, or at least diminished to a drip. As the Soviet Union takes hold and expels Western correspondents and cameramen, expect to see fewer of those distant grainy films of Soviet transports landing, and Soviet tanks lumbering up the road, giving visual confirmation to the anchorman's words. Chancellor feels "frustrated as hell...
...looked at her with his grey, distant gaze...