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Last week Mondale doggedly chased after Reagan from Orange County in California to an American Legion convention in Salt Lake City to a B'nai B'rith meeting in Washington. He poked and prodded, looking for soft spots. To a group of grocery workers in Compton, Calif., he portrayed Reagan as the friend of the rich, and tried hard to show his own indignation. "I'm mad. I'm angry. I'm damn mad," he insisted, looking pained. But speaking in Cupertino, Calif., the day before, Reagan had simply scoffed at "that pack of pessimists...
Mondale is reluctant to attack Reagan personally. But he does intimate that Reagan is a detached, even dangerous, Chief Executive who falls asleep in Cabinet meetings and makes light of bombing the Russians. Said Mondale to the American Legion: "He even jokes about nuclear war. It's not funny." When the Soviets negotiate arms control with Mondale, said Running Mate Ferraro, "they'll have to deal with a man who understands the world and knows what he is doing." Ferraro also contrasted Reagan's show-business past with Mondale's career in Government. "While Ronald Reagan...
...toward the Oval Office; the opportunity he faces this fall is to prove himself as a campaigner. "He hasn't been the most visible Vice President," notes one observer. "It's the first time he has been showcased since 1980." As a diligent centurion in the Reagan legion, Bush has been careful so far to avoid establishing an independent identity. Both to counter the Ferraro factor in 1984 and to position himself for 1988, he will have to navigate deftly between being a loyal surrogate for Reagan and a political force in his own right...
...called himself "the man that Denver loves to hate" and delighted in insulting his listeners. He liked to boast that his enemies included the Ku Klux Klan, the Palestine Liberation Organization, the American Nazi party and a legion of crank callers. His Denver radio station, KOA, even kept a list of people who had threatened his life. Thus when combative Radio Talk-Show Host Alan Berg, 50, was gunned down in his driveway late one night last week, many wondered at first which of his listeners was the killer...
...English-class essay," and the last chatty and, in a carefully chiseled way, spontaneous. Advice to imitators: to avoid marooning yourself without provisions in a trackless last paragraph, think ahead of time of your cheery ending, the gag that leaves the reader newly hopeful that joining the French Foreign Legion may not be the only answer. Bombeck is proud of never missing a deadline, and she makes a point of quoting the praise of an elderly Detroit Free