Word: knocks
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...offices in 20 cities and towns, campaigned in the state for a year, and won strong union backing. He is also supported by six of the state's seven Democratic U.S. Representatives. But Udall's own polls show him running behind Carter, and a loss might well knock him out of the race. As a result, Udall changed his strategy last week to devote more time and money to Wisconsin and less to New York. He has also presented himself unabashedly as a kind of surrogate for Humphrey, who for years was considered the third Senator from Wisconsin...
Seltzer, 43, is playing a starring role in Knock Knock, Jules Feiffer's successful new play about two middle-aged men living in seclusion (TIME, Feb. 2). Last week Seltzer was nominated for a Tony award for his role as Cohn, a fussy, intellectual eccentric. When Seltzer read his part to some of his students before the play opened, they thought he was merely being himself. Says Katherine Mendeloff, a senior English major from Baltimore: "It's so Seltzerian. Feiffer must have written it especially...
Still, Reagan's optimism seemed forced. His initial strategy-a blitzkrieg in New Hampshire and Florida that would knock Ford out of the race-had failed. Rather than quit, however, Reagan changed his strategy. Now his wishful thinking has him picking up enough delegates in primaries in the South, Southwest and West to keep Ford from getting the nomination on the first ballot. On subsequent ballots, Reagan envisions attracting enough uncommitted delegates to win the nomination for himself...
...most agile U.S. fighter. Israel's other combat planes (principally F-4 Phantoms and the Israeli-designed Kfirs) are being outfitted with the latest electronic gadgets to aid in night flying missions and foil antiaircraft missiles. The Shrike air-to-surface missile has been deployed to knock out the radars on which antiaircraft batteries depend. In addition, Israel is receiving "smart" bombs, which can be guided onto targets. Still on Jerusalem's shopping list are American RPVs (remotely piloted vehicles), which can counter the Arabs' Russian-built SAMs by drawing antiaircraft fire. To bolster its ground forces...
...profit motive is the catalyst of our free-enterprise system. It "leads us into temptation," but the system corrects itself. Let's not knock "the goose that laid the golden egg" too hard, or we will end up with a dead goose on our hands...