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Republicans could barely conceal their glee. Candidate Reagan sounded artfully sympathetic, saying, "You cannot confine relatives of elected officials to not having careers of their own." A Reagan aide was more direct: "The thing is going along just fine without any help from...
Some boycott supporters found the explanation a touch disingenuous. The thrill of competition, the glory of victory and the promise of lucrative endorsements must also have been powerful considerations. It was pointed out too that the Soviet press reported Coe's decision with great glee. Countered the middle-distance star: "I am not going to be used as a standard-bearer by people on either side of the debate...
Just after the New York Islanders won their first Stanley Cup championship in the team's eight years, Captain Denis Potvin hoisted the 31-lb. silver trophy above "his head and as tradition dictates, skated triumphantly around the rink. Other Islanders rolled on the ice in glee, while some 15,000 fans roared out of Nassau Coliseum and turned Hempstead Turnpike into the world's loudest parking lot. Said Rookie Ken Morrow: "I just can't believe...
...competence. They gave him an "A" for effort but an "F" for execution. Said former Reagan Aide Lyn Nofziger: "Some will say at least he tried. But others feel that if we didn't know already he was inept, this proves it. Republicans are not clucking in glee. They are wringing their hands, like the guy I had lunch with who said, 'It took him five months to do this. He could have done it in five days.' " Wisconsin Democratic Congressman Henry Reuss urged Carter to withdraw from the presidential race so that he could "serve...
...high school Stewart lettered three years in both baseball and football. When he came to Harvard, he played both as a kicker and a quarterback on the freshman football team but then dropped the sport to concentrate on baseball. He also sang in the Glee Club freshman year and tutored math. He has been active in the Phillips Brooks House Big Brother program throughout his Harvard career. But things weren't always so rosy...