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...methodized and refined basketball so that fat, second-rate coaches would quote his book glowingly at basketball camps, boys would imitate over-the-shoulder and slow, funny-looking foul shots, and--Bradley now realizes--fathers would allow a fifty cent paperback with pictures to replace them. His hook shot, as he diagrammed it, evolved in nine parts; he exercised his peripheral vision by identifying trees across the street while walking along looking straight ahead; he went through the five phases of his foul shot a thousand times a day. Behind all this lay the key, the three D's; Determination...
That left only Hubert Humphrey. After Pennsylvania, his telephones almost jangled off the hook as old friends begged him to step out of the sidelines and plunge into active campaigning. They pleaded that only he could stop Carter, whom many organization Democrats mistrust as an unknown and untested outsider. Time and again Humphrey met with longtime supporters and then pondered his decision one night...
...workshops are open to the public, Redes said. "We're trying to hook people into some of the groups in the city doing anti-intelligence work...
...couples who, sadly, amuse only each other. The Duchess (Goldie Hawn) is a Barbary Coast hooker trying to get off her back and onto her feet by turning a dishonest dollar. The Dirtwater Fox (George Segal) is a sharpie whose smart schemes always collapse in chaos. These two hook up to defraud a lubricious Mormon-a bit of bunko that helps keep the Dirtwater Fox a few steps ahead of some bad guys who are giving him heated chase. It seems that he made off with their loot from a bank job, only the Duchess swiped it from him, mixing...
...took New Hampshire, labor leaders started urging Humphrey to enter the race. After the Massachusetts primary, the liberals began calling. After Carter won Florida, Illinois and North Carolina, everybody called: Governors, Congressmen, party leaders. When the polls showed Carter pulling even with Humphrey, the phone almost rang off the hook. Says Dave Gartner, Humphrey's top aide: "We've got a thousand campaign managers out there...