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Strong Chisel. At the outset, it seemed that Metzenbaum would repeat his 1970 performance. There were few policy differences between the two Democrats, although Glenn is basically more conservative than Metzenbaum. The only major contrast was between Metzenbaum, the experienced politician, and Glenn, who had never before been elected to office. But Glenn steadily chipped away with one strong chisel-his Boy Scout image. The result was a decisive victory for Glenn, a plurality of 94,000 out of more than 1,000,000 votes cast...
...outset, Mundome's principal character seems to be one of those pretentiously arch, self-preoccupied creatures-remotely derived from Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground, and strained through the literary strictures of French neorealism-who infest European fiction. His name is Richard. He is a library archivist in charge of, yes, "fugitive and ephemeral materials." He is also the kind of man who will say, "Things are sometimes what they seem." But before the reader can begin to snarl or groan this incipient literary hedgehog changes into a devoted brother. His pretty sister Meg has just come home after...
...From the outset, the author asserts that "there is a South--a region that is different from the rest of the nation." He proposes "not to suggest that there were narrow escapes or near misses, that things might have been different, [but] to illustrate concretely something that is often forgotten in thinking about the American South ... Always there have been diversities and divergences within its history and among its people, not only between the races, but among the whites as well...
Graphic Arts International Union officials said this week that only about 25 per cent of the delivery trucks coming in to the University Printing Office are honoring the picket lines, as opposed to about 50 per cent at the strike's outset. And the University is also trying to stop 11 workers in the University Mail Communications Center from joining one of the striking Unions of the GAIU...
...odds of winning one seemed stacked against Yale at the outset, as Ken MacKenzie's squad entered the EIBL twin bill with a 2-12 record (0-16 in the league). But Gallagher's unusual performance enabled the Elis to win their first from the Crimson since 1966, snapping a nine-game string for Harvard...