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Astronauts Allen and Gardner performed this feat of derring-do not once but twice last week, rescuing another malfunctioning satellite 690 miles away (see following story). All systems A-O.K., shuttle flight 51-A sailed home at week's end to a smooth landing and a hero's welcome at Florida's Kennedy Space Center...
Having achieved that feat of prognostication, primarily through exit polling of tens of thousands of people as they left the voting booths, the networks belatedly seemed to realize that they had diminished the drama of their story. If the election was over, why should viewers continue to watch? The answer, in the parlance of the sports mentality that prevails in much of TV news: to see whether Reagan could win a record 50-state sweep or Mondale's "prevent defense," as Rather called it at one point, could hold him off. As it grew probable that Minnesota would spare...
...remarkable string of successes. Our economy is now in the midst of the most powerful growth since the aftermath of World War II, due largely to the Keynesian tax out politics Reagan shepherded through Congress. Inflation was stopped dead in its tracks neat the 3 percent level a feat most economists predicted would take a decade or more. The unemployment rate has dropped steadily. The country has shaken off the national malaise that the Carter-Alondale Administration created to explain its own failings. The last majority of Americans would answer a resounding "Yes" to the question. "Are you better...
...unlikely, of course, that any major advancements in U.S.-Soviet relations will be made before the elections. The Reagan Administration would love to negotiate a headline agreement within the next month, a feat which would undoubtedly assure the President a coronation in November. The Soviets understandably are hedging their bets, stalling until they know exactly with whom they must deal for the next four years. They also have some major house-cleaning to do at home: as Pipes notes, "their largest problem right now is not our election, but a crisis of leadership in Moscow...
...laissez-faire Presidents. On the eve of the 1920 election, H.L. Mencken came out in favor of Warren Harding, "an honest reactionary" who pledged a return to normalcy. Harding's successor, Calvin Coolidge, won in 1924 on a platform of tax and budget cutting. Coolidge's "chief feat...