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...team, undefeated in New England collegiate competition last fall, will spend 11 days playing its way to and through Florida. The trip will culminate in a two-day tournament in Fort Lauderdale benefiting the Easter Seal Foundation...
...kind of diplomacy based on direct, capital-to-capital contacts. "It's a short leash now," says a 30-year veteran ruefully, "and it's just not as much fun." And then there are the official visitors. At the close of last year's Easter recess, the Peking embassy totted up the number of Congressmen, Senators, wives and aides to whom it had played host in a nine-day period. The total: 167. Says an embassy staffer: "We spend at least 50% of our time as glorified travel agents...
...public polls on the eve of the New Hampshire primary rated him no more than neck and neck with the onrushing Bush. Even veteran Republican politicians shrugged off any prospect of a major Reagan victory. "If that happens," said Gordon Nelson, G.O.P. chairman in neighboring Massachusetts, "I'm the Easter bunny...
Last week it was Easter in February, and Nelson may have felt long, floppy ears growing out of his head. For when the votes were counted in New Hampshire Tuesday night, Reagan had turned the Republican race upside down?again. He did not just win in what had been billed as a neck-and-neck contest; he swamped Bush by more than 2 to 1, and with 50% of the ballots, collected as many votes...
...Clark. "I frankly wasn't paying too much attention to it." By the time the campaign began, the country was awash with Joe Clark jokes, many of them crude and unfair. (Which of those two fellows in Santa Claus suits is Joe Clark? Answer: The one handing out Easter eggs.) The jokes were only part of the problem. Far more serious were Clark's inexperience in economics and foreign policy, and a string of broken campaign commitments...