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...pushing Carter harder than expected in this week's New York primary and later in the District of Columbia or Rhode Island. It was more likely that John Anderson could jostle Reagan in a primary here or there, most probably in Wisconsin and Oregon, and he might even mount a challenge in Reagan's home state of California. George Bush, too, vowed to fight on to the end, and he hoped to do well this week in Connecticut. But even if the underdogs snap and bite from time to time, there seems to be no way they...
...cancer specialist at the University of Wisconsin, "we're only about 2% of the way along toward widespread clinical application." And should interferon become plentiful, it would probably be used as a supplement to, rather than a replacement for existing treatment. Warns Dr. James Holland, of Manhattan's Mount Sinai School of Medicine: "There are no breakthroughs in cancer treatment." Then he adds: "Come back in a year and ask me about interferon then. I bet I'll have some really exciting things to tell...
...Gwynne Vanderbilt, 67, met Widower Astaire eight years ago while she was riding the California tracks; their feelings quickly became parimutual. Astaire wants her to keep on jockeying if they marry; railbirds may not be so keen. Smith's only other winner this season was a Santa Anita mount six weeks ago named Rock 'n Royalty...
...twenty college that will participate in the group effort are Amherst, Bates, Bowdoin, Clarkson, Colby, Connecticut College, Hamilton, Middlebury, Mount Holyoke, Norwich, Saint Lawrence, Smith, Trinity, Union, Vassar, Wellesley, Wesleyan, Wheaton, Williams, and Worcester Polytechnic Institute...
...boys on the Rideau Canal (though younger members of his staff have taken to referring to him -in private, anyway-as "the old man"). While there was no rekindling of the flames of "Trudeaumania" during the campaign, he racked up an impressive personal victory in his home district of Mount Royal in Montreal. He won a total of nearly 36,000, or 82% of the vote. Even before election day, his hapless Tory opponent, Harry Bloomfield, conceded: "Trudeau is brilliant and incredibly attractive. I don't expect to win. I'm not nuts...