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...Bush has them all this time around. The former CIA chief and ambassador to the United Nations is openly and unabashedly copying Carter's come-from-nowhere '76 strategy. Grab the early contests, catch the attention of the media, and write your own convention ticket. Bush has followed the peanut trial well and the gameplan is working even better the second time around...
...hard to believe this is happening: the game, the Americans cheering for the Romanians, the peanut vendors, the officials almost killed by a flying puck, the people from Rochester, the buck popcorn, the announcement of the U.S. -Norway score, the ice, the lights, the political implications, the meaning, the flash bulbs. How much did your ticket cost...
...Vasilios's judgment, Carter is a good person, and besides, one can't forget that his son Chip drank under this very roof just last October. A young barmaid serves the sage another Michelob and adds, "Carter's a good solid religious man. He's a peanut farmer." As the barmaid Alicia stands in attendance listening, Vasilios turns to Kennedy. "He's not what his brothers were; he's a jerk. He got kicked out of school, he plays with women, and then there's Chappaquiddick," Vasilios says dismissingly. Alicia nods. "He's been a fuck-up all his life...
...floor with a retinue of 60 journalists and a chartered 727. "On the day of the Iowa loss, the jet was grounded for lack of funds," reports Correspondent Walter Isaacson. "Our final meal on board had been shrimp and broiled lobster. From now on it's buses and peanut butter sandwiches." Senior Correspondent Laurence Barrett, who follows Ronald Reagan and his team, might not mind an occasional grounding. When a spectator at a New Hampshire rally last week asked Barrett where he was from, the New York-based correspondent blurted, without pausing to reflect, "I live on a plane...
Rosalynn Carter, on her Christmas calculator from Husband Jimmy: "It was a complete surprise. I haven't used one since the peanut warehouse...