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Together DiCesare and Lyman should provide excellent defense up the middle Defense will be especially important this year with run production expected to be down and some young pitchers forced to enter into the fray...
Ever since, the states have been looking for ways to permit school prayer without appearing to demand it. Nineteen states have passed laws establishing a time for silent prayer or meditation in classrooms. Where challenged, however, these laws are usually struck down. The Supreme Court has remained above the fray, preferring to let the lower courts deal with the problems. But with Congress and the President agitating over a school-prayer amendment, the Justices may not be able to sit out much longer...
Three weeks ago, Mondale seemed to be sauntering directly toward the nomination. He smiled always and stayed above the fray. His campaign logistics, from scheduling to delegate counting, were said to be unprecedented in sophistication. Suddenly cracks began to appear. In Birmingham he showed up to shake hands at the wrong factory gate; in Florida reporters covering him had to pile into taxis-the press bus had disappeared. By the middle of last week he looked desperate ("I'm in trouble, I need your help"), making lame excuses for losing primaries ("We didn't really contest Vermont...
From all this came one performance above the fray, almost beyond belief...
...game got under way last week as a bipartisan group of congressional leaders accepted an invitation to meet with Administration officials and start negotiations to fashion a $100 billion "down payment" deficit-reduction plan. Expectations for quick success were not high, partly because Reagan was far from the fray, at his California ranch. Complained Democratic Senator Donald Riegle of Michigan: "Here they are meeting, and the President is out of town on vacation. Unless he becomes more actively involved in the discussions, there will be a growing perception that the whole effort is not real...