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However, the line between negative advertising so blatant that it infuriates voters and slightly less ham-handed ads that impress them is elusive. In Texas, Democratic Senator Lloyd Bentsen won re-election with the aid of a TV ad that pictured a frail old woman walking to her mailbox, finding it empty and staring at the camera in despair, while a voice accused Bentsen's opponent James Collins of plotting to wreck Social Security. Though Collins once advocated making Social Security voluntary, he now insists that he is avid to preserve the system. In Pennsylvania, Democrat Peter Kostmayer...
...those Steeler Super Bowl winners of the '70s did have Terry Bradshaw, Franco Harris and Lynn Swana gathering bunches of touchdowns during their Sunday walks down the football field. But the Steelers also had DEFENSE, as in Mean Joe Green, L.C. Greenwood, Ernie Holmes, Dwight White, Jack Lambert, Jack Ham, Andy Russell, Mel Blount, J.T. Thomas and on and on and on It was defense that filled Steeler fingers with Super Bowl rings...
...explains. "But it's a lot of work to punch in questions. My assistant is easier to work with." Says Kerry Orr of computer maker Control Data Corp. in Atlanta: "Most executives are intimidated by a keyboard." While computer firms insist that even the most ham-handed executive can be taught to operate a computer in a matter of hours, executive resistance remains high. Orr observes, "They normally are not honest enough to say, 'I don't want to use it because I'm afraid...
Except that one door is adamantly stuck. It is one more maddening problem for the director (Paul Eddington), who divides his time between lechery and Valium. He has to cope with a woozy old ham (Michael Aldridge) who makes only two kind of entrances: pre-cue and post-cue. "I thought I heard my voice," he says blearily. And then there is the Stanislavski Method actor who wants a profound psychological reason as to why he has to exit with a plate of sardines...
...most important event of Sunday came late in the evening when Dianne Ham, 33, went to Copelin's room to talk about switching foremen. They agreed that Jackson seemed uncomfortable in the position. In a nearby room, Lawrence Coffey was awake in bed coming to his own decision about Hinckley. "I lay there thinking about his letters to Jodie and to his parents," the burly hotel banquet assistant recalls. "I felt sure he wasn't in his right mind when he shot those people...