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...handle the economy has dropped from an impressive 75% to 66%, and his perceived competency in foreign affairs has slipped from 72% to 63%. The Californian still worries voters on a basic level: 54% of those surveyed feel that he often does not get his facts straight, and 48% fret that he may be "trigger happy...
...make it, just barely, and then after the black flies, we got summah again for a couple uh weeks, and then, damn sure, we got wintah, and I don't know if I'm up to it." A New Hampshire pessimist in good summer form can fret about blizzards three or four years away...
...Horns begin to grow as soon as I cross the Mississippi," jokes Ronald Reagan to top aides who fret about his image, particularly among Easterners, as an inflexible ultraconservative. Most Americans want their next President to have right-wing principles, argues a Reagan adviser, but also to be "reasonable and able to recognize when it is necessary to make an exception" to conservative tenets. Reagan, in fact, demonstrated just that ability when he was Governor of California from 1967 to 1975. As Jimmy Carter and the nation have learned, a man's record as Governor provides only limited insight...
...President and his aides have no fear that Kennedy will somehow snatch away the Democratic nomination. Whatever the outcome of this week's Pennsylvania primary, Jimmy Carter's lead in delegates still looks insurmountable. But the President's aides fret that if Kennedy carries his challenge all the way to the convention in August, his increasingly sharp attacks will undermine Carter among traditionally Democratic voting groups whose support the President must retain to win reelection...
Like other New England cities and towns, Winooski (pop. 7,500), Vt., has every reason to fret about rising heating costs. During the long winter, temperatures there frequently plummet to -20° F or lower. But some Winooskians think they may have found a way to beat their rising oil bills. They are seriously looking into the idea of covering the town with a dome to reduce the escape of heat. Says the dome's chief proponent, Community Development Director Mark Tigan: "It would be the ultimate in Yankee ingenuity...