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What are the key qualities required of a leader? Oregon's Republican Senator Robert Packwood, 44, suggested half a dozen key traits: "Purpose. Integrity. Tolerance, which is just a willingness to keep enough of an open mind to admit that you may be wrong. Zealots are dangerous; they are so convinced that they are right and you are wrong. This is what we saw in the Nixon White House. And discipline. I never saw anybody make it who did not have sufficient personal discipline to say, 'No, I cannot play golf. I have things to do.' Imagination...
Each of them invested the $500 it takes to pay the state Secretary of State's election fee, and came up with the 500 signatures it takes to get on the ballot in each of New Hampshire's two primary districts. The meager 188 votes that Clegg and Packwood earned as a dividend would indicate that American capitalism has sunk even lower than they think...
...only candidates who are against Communists," Packwood said Tuesday as he stood outside the aging Franklin Street Elementary School in downtown Manchester talking to voters on their way to the polls. He said it was the Supreme Court's decision banning mandatory prayer in public schools that opened the floodgates in America to surging, atheistic Communism...
...back into education," Packwood said, jingling the Clegg-Packwood sign hanging from a string around his neck as he pointed repeatedly to the schoolhouse behind...
...soft-spoken, polite man, Packwood smiled at passersby from his niche on a small plot of frozen lawn, but showed no aggressiveness in nabbing the potential voters in their number--all of which left one reporter wondering whether God had a chance in His battle against Communism with soporific soldiers like this...