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Because of these circumstances and as a result of an unsure style of leadership, Carter fell to levels of popularity lower than any other President in the history of polling, despite the absence of any major scandal in his Administration or any international catastrophe. His restrained and at times erratic performance has won him neither personal nor ideological devotion. His political weakness has attracted a large number of challengers in the Republican Party. More important, it has drawn onto the field a reluctant Senator Edward M. Kennedy, the flawed heir of Camelot...
...ponder why Carter's new maturity and depth did not arrive until his standing in the national opinion polls fell into the basement and his own warm political body was threatened. In that is an echo of the modern curse of personality politics. But that is less important if through some alchemy of these past weeks Jimmy Carter has joined the presidential club, likes it in there and wants to stay there badly enough to change himself. We all benefit...
...just don't know what happened to Dartmouth. They just fell flat on their faces," Hunt said afterwards of the team that had between the Crimson in a dual meet earlier this season...
Harvard's Jon Hollingsworth then fumbled on the first play after the kickoff at the Harvard 28. On Brown's third down, at the 29, Carbone threw to Mitch Metz--all alone in the flat after his defender fell down--who ran from the 15 to the end zone for the second touchdown...
After the Brown assault early in the second half, the pace, and the rain, slowed. Harvard reached as far as Brown 22 once, but St. John slipped and fell on 4th and 12 and the Crimson gave the ball over to Brown...