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...larger cities: Manchester, Nashua, Concord and the university town of Durham, counting on the publicity there to reach the more widely scattered Republicans. Though his advance men distributed 15,000 leaflets announcing his airport arrival time in Manchester, only 400 people showed up in the 10° cold to greet him. On a thawing Sunday, on the other hand, Ford lured some 1,000 enthusiastic well-wishers to a cake and coffee reception in Concord. He won strong applause at the University of New Hampshire for his patient and controlled responses to the heckling questions of radicals...
...Many greet the new menstrual research with skepticism. Dr. William D. Walden, clinical assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the Cornell Medical Center is "very wary of blaming everything on psychological problems." Weideger herself says "not all cases of menstrual or menopausal discomfort will be dramatically reduced or 'cured' by changes in attitude...
...Baldwin was coming to Harvard, I decided on a field trip intead of a retreat. I considered my worst fears: we might find an effete writer regaling black undergraduates whom my students would think had edged out their own kids to get to Harvard. Worse, the Harvard audience might greet the men with raised eyebrows, even with a conjecture that Buildings and Grounds had turned out for the evening. But it was an opportunity, a risk the men would never take outside our class. I suggested a vote, everyone abiding by the outcome...
...dramatic example occurred in 1970 when Eatontown National Bank in New Jersey, the victim of a multimillion-dollar embezzlement, was closed by Government order, then invaded by a score of banking agents. When anxious depositors phoned the bank, they heard an operator greet them with "FDIC." Eventually $13.5 million was handed out to 9,904 depositors...
Brief Stops. Five hours later, Reagan was on the campaign trail in Miami. As he plunged into a crowd to greet an old friend, a swarthy young man pulled what appeared to be a black pistol from a small brown bag. Secret Service agents pushed the candidate and his wife back out of range and wrestled to the ground Michael Carvin, 20, a university dropout staying in Pompano Beach, Fla. His gun turned out to be a toy. After being charged with intimidating a candidate and interfering with federal officers, he was sent to a mental hospital for observation. Officials...