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...state that nurtured Abraham Lincoln prepared to vote, electronic vignettes of all the contenders. John Anderson, billed as the candidate of ideas, was seen soaring and swooping, eyes nearly closed in his passion, resembling no one so much as the late Billy Sunday. George Bush, the cool Ivy Leaguer, appeared with his neck veins protruding, finger wagging, voice in upper fortissimo. Jimmy Carter was there too, via the tube, talking calmly from the White House as the world he helped to create seemed to be collapsing around...
Some scornful critics are suggesting that the Nashua incident portrayed Bush as the fragile, blue-blooded, rich Ivy Leaguer they always thought he was. The Ivy League takes a lot of bad raps. Strong men do emerge from those schools. Franklin Roosevelt and John Kennedy went to Harvard and Gerald Ford to Yale...
...Reagan, he does look 35. His ubiquitous personal and political background has proved a great asset to the effort. The man is from everywhere. He is the son of Prescott Bush, former millionaire senator from Connecticut. Bush can genuinely identify himself as a New Englander, a preppie, an Ivy Leaguer, a Texan, a southerner or a westerner--and he does...
...What former major leaguer is unable to hitchhike...
Yazstrsemski is the 14th major leaguer ever to collect 3000 hits, and the first American Leaguer in history to also slug 400 home runs. Fans flooded the field and the game was stopped for 15 minutes while Yaz accepted the congratulations of his teammates and of the opposing New York Yankees...