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...exhausting primary campaign is a fading memory, and his coronation as Democratic presidential nominee is at hand. It is his golden chance to get the drive against Ronald Reagan off to a rousing start by performing crisply some of the normally pleasant rituals of leadership: selecting a running mate, pulling the party together for the fall campaign, writing the script for the convention that next week will surely hand him the nomination he has so long sought...
...vice-presidential nomination for Hart had not been discussed. Perhaps not, but Hart's advisers have become unanimous in their belief that the Colorado Senator should accept the position if offered . Hart flashed his wild card the next day when asked how he might choose his running mate. Answered Hart mischievously: "I can choose a woman, and I can announce my choice before the convention...
That would certainly put Mondale in a bind. Struggling to keep his own running-mate options open, he continued to hold his well-publicized Veepstakes interviews...
...idea like no other issue since the struggle to pass the ERA. "All of a sudden women are thinking, 'My God, we're going to fight for it,' " says Eleanor Smeal, former president of the National Organization for Women. The case for a female running mate, supporters argue, is practical as well as ideological. Says Kathy Wilson, president of the National Women's Political Caucus: "Show me someone who could help beat Reagan more than a woman, and I'll drop this argument...
...shovels cannot keep him in sight. Texas horned toads can, when angry or excited, actually squirt blood from the corners of their eyes. No animal seems more, well, humane than the American lobster, as portrayed by Stewart. Most sea creatures are love-them-and-leave-them suitors, impregnating their mates, then allowing them to fend for themselves. Not the crustacean, whose mate must shed not only her defenses but her shell when she visits his underwater den. Sensing something about vulnerability, he lets her stay a week or more until her new shell is grown...