Word: pennsylvania
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Lonely long-distance runners, the three major Democratic candidates face a daunting schedule ahead-if they stay the course. After this week's New York and Wisconsin primaries, it will be on to Arizona and Missouri and then to the greatly important Pennsylvania contest at month's end. In May, provided stamina, money and voter support hold out, the challengers will struggle through 16 primaries. A sample of life on the high-hurdled campaign trail is given in the following reports by TIME Correspondents Stanley Cloud, on Jimmy Carter; Bonnie Angela, on Morris Udall; and Angelo and Roland...
When reporters scurried to file their stories, Carter chatted privately for 30 minutes with Pittsburgh Mayor Pete Flaherty, who had flown to Rochester specifically for the meeting. Later Flaherty would declare his support for Carter in Pennsylvania's April 27 primary...
...this flight, the candidate, wrapped in a tan blanket, sleeps through flashbulbs as photographers intrude. The day had been rough. He had made appearances in ten different locations in New York, some of them rousing successes, others total flops. He had started out at Manhattan's Pennsylvania Station at 8 a.m., accosting commuters single-mindedly on their way to work. He had courted Jewish voters, though he knew their hearts were with Scoop Jackson; he had been cheered by students, who he knew were his own. Twice he had been attacked by radicals shouting "Fascist!" His motorcade had suffered...
Desperate to survive cruel April, when he stands to lose big to Gerald Ford in New York, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, Reagan persuaded NBC to sell him a half-hour of prime time after the other two networks had turned him down. To make room, NBC pre-empted one of its turkeys, The Dumplings. Reagan spent twelve hours polishing several drafts and five hours taping the show at a Hollywood commercial studio...
There is support for Amsterdam's view in the working experience of other mandatory sentencing laws. In 1970, first-degree murder in Pennsylvania carried a mandatory punishment of life imprisonment, but a team of researchers, led by University of Chicago Law Professor Franklin Zimring, reports in a forthcoming study that plea bargaining and lesser charges were regularly used to evade the law's intent, suggesting to the authors "that legislation prescribing mandatory capital punishment for premeditated or felony-murder would not be mandatory in effect." Supporters of mandatory executions answer that the new capital punishment laws...