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This conspiracy has long been in the making. What evidence I do have suggests that the conspirators first struck thirty years ago in Houston, Tex. It was there, in 1962, that, in the name of convenience, the Astrodome opened complete with glass roof and real grass...
...good on paper. But then they built the glass dome and a little too much light began to shine on the project. Players taking batting practice under the dome were so blinded by the glare that four glass panels had to be painted white. That, in turn, killed the grass. The grounds keeping compromise that artificially grew out of this crisis--Astroturf--haunts the national pastime to this...
...former California Governor, derided by Democratic insiders as a flake, a fake, a maverick and a mountebank, regained political legitimacy last week by edging out Clinton 37% to 36% in the Connecticut primary. "It's a miracle," Brown proclaimed. "It's not about me. It's about the grass roots rising up against the bounced checks, the congressional pay raises, the corrupt status...
Braun's low-budget, grass-roots movement benefited from Hofeld's slick $5 million campaign, which attacked Dixon as a backslapping political hack. While Hofeld and Dixon split the white male vote, Braun edged past them, with strong support from blacks and women providing the margin of victory. If she wins the general election against Republican Richard Williamson, 42, a former Reagan Administration official, Braun will become the first black woman ever elected to the U.S. Senate...
Each of the former Presidents has a special following: Nixon, the influential foreign policy establishment; Reagan, the Republican right wing and the broad segment of the populace that still holds great affection for the old trouper; Ford, a grass-roots network of pols whom he helped during his four decades in Congress. Standing behind Bush on the convention stage in August, this trio would give the final campaign a rousing kickoff...