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...hours, after the New Hampshire primary, polltakers from Boston to Birmingham detected shifts in voter sentiment so rapid and large that at first they seemed a matter of sampling error, a computer blip. Vast numbers of citizens who had barely heard of Hart in mid-February had decided, literally overnight, that they would like to see him become the Democratic nominee. Three weeks ago Mondale thought he had Massachusetts locked up. Only ten days later, Mondale had written off the state. "It's the most incredible shift in public opinion I've ever seen," said Chester Atkins, Massachusetts...
...Overnight, in short, and quite unexpectedly, the Democratic race has become precisely that?a race. A hard one to figure...
...world market rose as much as 600 per bbl. but later settled back. At Lloyd's of London, nervous insurance underwriters met two or three times a day to assess the situation. They did not raise their rates significantly, but all this could change overnight if attacks on tankers should begin in earnest...
Hart claims to understand the odds. "I don't expect any overnight miracles, he says. Even so, he seems almost mystically convinced that, if only because his undoctrinaire liberalism represents our party's future," the nomination will somehow, some day, be his. But it was Mondale who convinced Iowa Democrats that his future is now. -By Kurt Andersen. Reported by Hays Corey with Hart, and Christopher Ogden/Des Moines
...with others in an INS bus to the border at Tijuana. He met another young deportee, who had $10, and the two used it for food. After a day of wandering, they crawled into the U.S. through a hole in the border fence. INS agents caught them, detained them overnight and deported them again. They sneaked back into the U.S. An elderly friend of the other youth let them sleep in his backyard in San Diego. Mario's father, meanwhile, borrowed $60 from friends, took a bus to the border and spent four days showing pictures...