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Cranston, at 69 the most ebullient and energetic campaigner in the pack, has been able to make hay with the straw polls. "I love 'em," he gloats. And well he should. His straw-poll upset of Mondale in Wisconsin seemed to bear out his intense organizational effort in the state (one aide spent six weeks in a single congressional district). But thus far Cranston has been unable to attract broad popular support. As he took a Fourth of July ride on a ferry across Puget Sound to Winslow, Wash. (pop. 2,420), and paraded amid bagpipers and bellydancers there...
...vanished into the desert with two suitcases full of cash. By the time Alvarez caught up with the World Series, it had grown to a knightly joust with 75 entrants for the main event, each of whom put up $10,000 to play. The game (hold 'em, an exotic species of seven-card stud) was a freeze-out, with play continuing until one man held all the chips...
...percentage is even higher this year) that the services are refusing some re-enlistment applications and reducing annual recruiting targets. "They come in here and say to us, 'I want this or I want that or I don't join,' " says Field. "We tell 'em to hit the bricks. There's a lot of others beating the door down...
...honored. I fear that a pattern has been established. Instead of denouncing much a trend with hard words. I would like to suggest another way that the Foundation can bring a little Hollywood to Harvard. Why don't they invite Duffy Duck? Oh yea, that little varmint will pack'em in. In addition, he fits the Foundation's criteria for guests: he's black, a celebrity, and no matter what he says no one will be offended. Duffy is irresistible case and will not offer anything even remotely related to race relations. Who could be more ideal? Jeffrey Freguson...
...blast had laid open a shoulder, an arm and a leg. The arm was spouting blood from a main artery. Johnson stuck his fingers in the holes to slow the hemorrhaging long enough for him to get a pressure bandage in place. Stop the bleeding, treat' em for shock, get 'em to a chopper. It wasn't pretty, and it wasn't textbook medicine, but Reid was going to make...