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...influence over how the party spends its voter-registration funds, and give him a voice in appointments to the party commission that will study changes in the rules for selecting Democratic convention delegates in 1988. Above all, they say, Mondale must make a public concession of some kind to Jackson???never mind if that further troubles Mondale's Jewish supporters, not to mention other white voters. Says one Jackson adviser: "Mondale better realize that in November, 50% of Jews are going to vote Republican anyway." (In 1980, only 39% did so, and in 1976 only...
Misunderstandings like this can be compounded by the gutter press (MICHAEL JACKSON???MORE OF HIS INTIMATE SECRETS; MICHAEL'S AGONIZING TUG OF LOVE) and by the putative inside-track show-biz gossip. Jackson wants a sex-change operation; Jackson has gone under the knife for extensive plastic surgery; Jackson has been shot full of female hormones to keep his face pretty and his voice soaring high. "Not true," says Riggs. "I'm his voice teacher, and I'd know. He started out with a high voice, and I've taken it even higher. He can sing low?down...
...covey of scouts to prowl school stadiums and the American Legion circuit in search of promising talent. The scouting system sometimes flopped. In 1966 the Mets drafted as their first choice Catcher Steve Chilcott, passing up hard-hitting Reggie Jackson. Chilcott has never played a major league game, while Jackson???who has already hit 45 home runs for Oakland this season?is developing into one of baseball's great sluggers. Sometimes, though, the Mets had better luck. That same year, for example, they picked up a handsome young pitcher named George Thomas Seaver...
Mistakes are costly, and the bigger the maker, the bigger the cost. Last May, The Saturday Evening Post published an article by one Meade Minnigerode, a young Manhattan litterateur. It was titled Rachel Jackson???An Informal Biography. In it the story of the wife of Andrew Jackson was told in a chatty manner, a manner similar to that in which Mr. Minnigerode had previously retailed in the Post the faults and foibles and personal characteristics of other characters in U. S. history? Aaron Burr and others...
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