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Confident and articulate, Zschau bears a certain narrow-eyed resemblance to Actor Richard Gere. In a statewide Mervin Field poll taken last November, Zschau was the preferred candidate of only 3% of registered Republicans. By March he had soared into the ranks of the leaders with 11%. As an exemplar of the pragmatic brand of California Republicanism, rather than a "true believer" of the right, he is the only one who draws support from all regions of the state...
Beyond that, only one prediction seems safe: Ferraro will be scrutinized, written about, pictured on TV, quizzed at news conferences, debated over living-room tables more than any vice-presidential candidate in decades?if not ever. Indeed, says California Pollster Mervin Field, "apart from a movie star, she will be covered more than any other woman...
Fran Tate sells ice cubes to Eskimos for $3 a bag and sells out frequently. If she has her way, one day there will be a skating rink in Barrow. For now, Pepe's thrives. (Mervin Setoyant, for instance, eats there four times a week. "It's something different," he says with a bored shrug, contemplating his usual order...
...anti-Establishment voters would seem made to order for New Celebrity Hart. Says Hart Chairman John Emerson: "California is a place that has grown on the idea of opportunity and the future, and that's what Hart is all about." But that is not what the polls show. Mervin Field's California Poll in early May had Mondale ahead 41% to 39%; a later poll by Steven Teichner for television station KABC in Los Angeles showed Hart leading 29% to 27%, with a stunning 34% undecided. The conclusion many observers are drawing is that California Democrats, used...
...Mervin Aubespin, 45, was in the city room late one night at the Louisville Courier-Journal, where he has been a reporter for more than a decade, when an editor dropped by with an unusual request. The editor wanted Aubespin, who is black, to telephone a source on a story he had been covering since its inception, then hand the source over to a white reporter who would conduct an interview. Says the normally restrained Aubespin: "The assumption was made, purposely or not, that I was not able to ask the right questions. I got real evil...