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How to persuade people to take him seriously is the predicament of the ten-term Republican Congressman from Illinois as he pursues the presidency for the first time in his life. By most standards, he should be a top contender. James Gannon, executive editor of the Des Moines Register, calls...
Connally's sure, deep voice exudes confidence, comforting and commanding his Chicago audience like a wise smalltown sheriff. Speaking without a prepared text, he ticks off facts and figures, developing his arguments lucidly and engaging his listeners with a tone of careful sincerity. He is always controlled, raising his voice...
34. Robert Muller, 34, was an idealistic undergraduate at New York's Hofstra University when he enlisted in the Marines and went to Viet Nam as a lieutenant. In 1969 he was shot in the spine and left paralyzed from the waist down. The disillusioning war and shabby treatment accorded...
A former professor of mass communications who became chancellor of the University of Wisconsin's Stevens Point campus at 41, Dreyfus is a self-styled "Republicrat." He only joined the G.O.P. in December of 1977. "If you're going to take 'em over, the least you can...
The senior class committee chose Christulides to deliver the Harvard oration, Leda Cosmides '79 to deliver the Radcliffe oration, and Thomas Gammill '79 as the Ivy orator.