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...find it particularly funny. "I don't think that would be very appropriate," she said icily. Indeed it wouldn't. Canvassing smacks too much of the old politics of traipsing up and down three-deckers on dark nights, for this new breed of political activist. Much better to greet old friends here and discuss old lost causes than to confront a different group of people in the working class areas of the state...
Both of the wives bring to their campaigning a remarkably similar poise and professionalism, to say nothing of chic good looks that are the envy of their contemporaries in the crowds that turn out to greet them (Pat is 60, Eleanor 50). They project a warmth that reaches their listeners in a way that their spouses manage only rarely. The rest is a study in contrasting styles. Eleanor, often in pantsuits, looks like the petite, bubbly cheerleader she once was back in high school in Woonsocket, S. Dak. Pat, slim and regally straight-backed, has only once appeared...
...junior's fault. As any follower of local football talent will tell you. B.U. has not been blessed with an over abundance of experience and depth. Especially depth. In fact, when coach Naviaux strode onto Nickerson Field this August for the opening fall workout he was able to greet only 70 bodies -- some of them not even warm...
...Stanley in the cavernous Detroit center field. Harper crossed the plate with the tying run as Yaz steamed into third base. But the coordination of Aparicio had deserted him in this one crucial moment. Little Luis fell down, crawled back to third base with the go-ahead run, to greet the ecstatic, then horrified, yastrzemski. The pennant was AI Kaline's, as he would prove the next...
...second time in eight months, China's aging leaders will gather this week at the now familiar willow-edged airport outside Peking to greet a traveler on a historic mission. Last February the U.S. President stepped out of Air Force One and totally changed the geopolitical shape of the world. This time the plane will be a Japan Air Lines jet carrying the leader of a country whose rivalry with China scarred Asia for the better part of the past century. The arrival of Japan's Premier Kakuei Tanaka in Peking, said China's Premier Chou...