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...Gracious and smiling, Reagan applied his blend of amiability and toughness at a lunch on Capitol Hill last week with most of the Senate's 53 Republicans. Any air of confrontation evaporated as he told the Senators: "Together I believe we can hold down taxes, hold down spending and ensure a national defense that is able to preserve the peace." He said that he would be happy to consider any bipartisan plan that meets those standards, adding: "When we have honest differences, you can count on me to be willing to listen." Declared Oregon Republican Mark Hatfield after...
Oliphant and DeMoulin win, decisively, over Kidd and Smith. "Awesome!' cries DeMoulin afterward, his trophy in hand. "I am psyched." JJ. Gertler, a formidable Amherst also-ran, is chatting "Don't you want to be in politics, J.J.?" friend asks. "Oh, my gracious, I hope not," he says. "We hope not too," chimes a passing victor, and Gertler, only momentarily speechless, manages a game smile...
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...considering Sadruddin too pro-Western. That opened the way for the runner-up, Pérez, who had won eight votes in the straw poll. In the official secret ballot held Friday he received ten votes, including that of the U.S. "I feel free again," said a gracious Waldheim after the decision. "They have chosen a very good...
...nearly 80, keeps a revolver in his office. When the mood strikes him, he swivels and fires into a stack of books in the corner. The people of the valley know from experience that some folks have a native wildness that is not to be trifled with. Even smiling, gracious Belle has a measure of congenital menace. Says her cousin Dutch: "I believe if you got her down to business, she would kill you." Her brother Arch, Dutch adds, "did kill two or three fellas...