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...cannot believe that their good Republican son is a willing refugee in North Korea. "I have to fight to save my son," Mrs. White says. "If they can capture one, they can do it to a hundred, and soon they'll be on the West Coast." On the mantel sit two photographs of her G.I. Joey. "They're breaking him down," insists Mr. White, at once hopeful and horrified that he is right. "My son's still resisting. I know he is." Perhaps Father knows best. But not even he has any real idea why on earth...
...your nomination today." Routed in the primary four years ago by the upstart King. Dukakis blamed his misfortune largely on complacency. He has taken nothing for granted in mapping out a thorough comeback strategy. Making the most of this Dukakis-dominated weekend, the former governor cloaked himself in the mantel of the state Democratic Party: "we put together a force that is too large, too diverse, and too strong to be stopped--today, in September, or in November...
...speak out on all contemporary causes: for Roosevelt's New Deal, for the Spanish Republic, against the spread of Nazism. "The victories of tyrants and the resistance of peoples halfway around the world," he wrote in 1939, "are as near as the ticking of the clock on the mantel...
Cass, 29, is not much awed by her husband's celebrity, which works out well, since he is not either. His three game-balls from this season decorate the mantel of their sitting room, but as homes of star athletes go, the exhibits are sparse-a few pictures, the footballs and a golf trophy (a long-drive contest-fourth place) hidden in a plant. "There are no heroes around this house," says Cass, who has a remedy for artistic temperament all prepared if it ever comes up. She will just hand Joe his shovel and point...
...already disputed by the Tobacco Institute, the industry's lobbying organization. The institute says that three U.S. statisticians who were asked to review the report discovered an error in how the data were analyzed and judged the study's conclusions "invalid." But one of the statisticians, Nathan Mantel of George Washington University, says that while his review raised questions about the study, it did not draw any firm conclusions. Says he: "The institute has put words in my mouth...