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Leadership. The Reagan campaign likes to refer to Mondale as "Carter-Mondale," to taint him with the image of fecklessness that is associated with Jimmy Carter's term. Again, the hatchet work has been delegated to Bush. He pointedly told voters that a leading Democrat, Mondale's primary opponent Colorado Senator Gary Hart, referred to the Carter Administration's handling of the Iran hostage crisis as "our days of shame." Bush also swiped at Mondale as the tool of "special interests" who is "asking the working people to pay off his billion-dollar promises...
Widely regarded as a conservative hatchet man when he ran for Vice President on Gerald Ford's ticket in 1976, Senator Robert Dole of Kansas has become less acid and more open to compromise; he also has the ability, unique in Washington, to stand up to lobbyists seeking tax loopholes. Yet Baker and Dole seem to lack passion and vision. Dole joshes that his wife Elizabeth, who is Reagan's Secretary of Transportation, would make an equally strong candidate. Dole buttons featuring pictures of both were seen on the convention floor. Their room number in Loews Anatole Hotel...
...mood outside grew slightly surreal; the two candidates' press secretaries, Maxine Isaacs and Kathy Bushkin, appeared on a second floor balcony at one point and tossed flowers to the crowd below. When Mondale and Hart finally emerged, they tried hard to convince their audience that the hatchet burying ritual had indeed been genuine. Said Hart, carefully using Mondale's nickname: "Fritz knows that throughout this contest he and I have been friends, are friends and will continue to be friends." Agreed Mondale: "I think we respect each other. I said during the campaign if we could just...
This is not to say that very many have the temperament of Frank Urban Zoeller, 32, who whistles while he plays. Or that an eight-stroke drubbing was casually accepted by Norman, 29, a hatchet-faced Australian able to hit the ball prodigious distances in unpredictable directions. "I needed something special. It never happened," he said after the playoff. "I feel disappointed and hollow." While it is the nature of contests that today's defeat can make yesterday's victory seem meaningless, neither a 160-yd., 6-iron shot into the 18th grandstand nor a 40-ft. putt...
...sports rivalry between Harvard and Yale runs deep and strong. But for two weeks this summer, both sides will try to bury the hatchet--or rather, the racket--as women tennis players from both schools team up for a tour of exhibition matches in England...