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...House of Representatives, the Democrats managed to escape with a tenuous hold on the helm, but the Republicans picked up an unexpected 33 seats. By cutting the Democratic lead to 243-192, the Republicans boosted themselves back to their pre-Watergate strength and laid the foundation for a serious assault on the House Democratic leadership...
...announcement came, fittingly enough, from Brezhnev himself, who after 16 years at the helm has proved to be the most durable Soviet leader since Joseph Stalin. Addressing 1,500 delegates to the biannual session of the Supreme Soviet in the Kremlin, Brezhnev announced that Kosygin, 76, was stepping down "on the grounds of his health, which has recently worsened." To replace him as Prime Minister, Brezhnev formally nominated Kosygin's longtime deputy, Nikolai Tikhonov, 75. The parliament's approval, with a unanimous show of hands, came automatically. Kosygin and former President Anastas Mikoyan are the only top Kremlin...
Buoyed by what he calls the "best recruiting year in the Ivy League," coach Frank McLaughlin heads into his fifth year at the Harvard helm with something he never had before: height--and plenty...
Flashing through the heavens like an extraterrestrial Tinker Bell, the spacecraft looks like something by H.G. Wells out of Walt Disney. At the helm is none other than the boy from Brooklyn, now fully grown and, among several other things, a real astronomer. With a nonchalant gesture over his magical controls, he guides the ship on a voyage made possible only by the imagination, with the help of a Hollywood special-effects crew. Into the arms of giant galaxies he goes, through halos of stars, past a blinking pulsar, skirting the edge of a black hole, even reconnoitering a distant...
...other major battlefield is downstate among rural conservative voters, who gave Carter a higher tally in 1976 than a Democrat usually gets. Like other conservatives, they are now leaning to Reagan. In Illinois this year, with no Daley at the helm in Cook County, anything can happen. Says Illinois State Representative Donald Totten, who heads the Reagan campaign in four Midwestern states: "There's a lot of switching around going on out there...