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Pennsylvania's vote sealed Kennedy's fate. Its 83 votes against his position provided the winning majority. On the previous weekend, Carter Campaign Manager Robert Strauss had been worried enough about Pennsylvania to instruct a Carter whip working the delegation: "Tell them we'll yank them off the damned convention floor if they don't want to vote with us. Whip, whip, whip them into shape!" The final tally was 1,936.4 to 1,390.6 in favor of Carter's position on the rule?an unexpectedly comfortable margin of 545.8 votes...
...then Anderson also benefited from the joint appearance. Kennedy promised that if nominated, he would include Anderson in a three-way debate and would instruct the Democratic National Committee to stop trying to keep the independent candidate off the ballot in various states. But Kennedy is highly unlikely to be nominated. In that case, his glowing praise of Anderson gives Kennedy's backers an alternative to Carter. If Anderson is to have any hope of making a good showing, he needs strong support from liberal Democrats...
Hook your audience in the first five minutes, most screenwriting manuals instruct. And there it is, smack on page five, the hook "He is your child too." Poor Bob. He has this perfect marriage with Sheila. They have two lovely daughters, precocious Jessica and wide-eyed Paula. Bob teaches statitics at MIT. Sheila edits books at Harvard University Press. Half way through their twenty year marriage, Bob had an affair with Nicole in the south of France, which he never admitted to Sheila. Nicole is dead but has a son...Bob tells Sheila...
...part wizard, he is Dagobah's answer to the High Lama of Shangrila. He has been training Jedi Knights for 800 years. At first he hardly wants to talk to Luke. "No good," he says to Ben Kenobi, who has hovered into view once again. "I cannot instruct him. The boy has no patience. Much anger in him, like his father. All his life has he looked away-to the horizon, to the sky, to the future. Never his mind on where he was, on what he was doing. Adventure, excitement. A Jedi craves not these things...
...change that has taken place since Zimbabwe's independence is in the so-called Journal of the People-blackboards situated at city street corners using cartoons to instruct Mozambicans on the government's latest concerns, strictures or admonishments, such as guarding against subversives and working hard. In the past, two of the archvillains have been former Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith and Uncle Sam. In these changing times, however, Mozambicans may have seen the last of both characters...