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...starting five of guards Saul Mariaschin '47 and Paul Champion '47, forwards John Gantt '47 and captain Wyndol Gray '46, and center Lou Decsi '46, the Crimson opened the season with six consecutive victories...
Apart from the fact that Gantt is an African American, there is little to distinguish one candidate from the other. Gantt, 53, is a self-made man and an experienced civic leader; Sanders, 64, is a heart specialist, an eminently confident sort of suture-self surgeon...
...height of cockeyed optimism for anyone to try to unshoe him; yet not one, but two cockeyed optimists are contending in North Carolina's Democratic primary next week for the sporting honor of challenging the Senator when he runs for a fifth term in November. One is Harvey Gantt, an architect and former two-term mayor of Charlotte who pulled off a respectable 47% to Helms' 53% of the vote when he tried to dislodge Helms in 1990. The other is Charlie Sanders, a millionaire physician, educator, onetime pharmaceuticals executive and a newcomer to politics...
That explains why Sanders is in contention, although (as Sanders admits) voters who try to discern sharp ideological distinctions between him and Gantt will be disappointed. As a result, the primary race is mainly a battle of images. Gantt, who grew up poor, lards his campaign speeches with inspirational stories about his ill-educated, hardworking father (a mechanic) and his "Mama [who] fed us values." Sanders, who taught medicine at Harvard, ran Massachusetts General Hospital, became vice chairman of Squibb Corp. and later CEO and chairman of the giant pharmaceutical company Glaxo, presents himself as a serious, concerned authority figure...
...Gantt's people argue that Sanders, who until recently was a registered independent, is nothing more than a faux Democrat. "He seems to have found his issues based on some kind of sophisticated campaign model," says Gantt campaign manager Jim Andrews. "I'm not sure he believes any of it." Nevertheless, Sanders' advertising campaign has been effective, quickly driving up his name recognition from 20% to 60%. "I'm someone who knows health care, education and business creation," he says. "Been there, done that." Says Ted Arrington, professor of political science at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte: "Sanders...