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...Arnold knew where the cameras were. He was quiescent for the first two hours of a briefing for 60 Republican congressional candidates with the likes of White House Staffers Ed Meese, Jim Baker and David Stockman, but when the President stepped to the podium for the super pep talk, Arnold quickly rose to his feet while those around him tried unsuccessfully to wave him down, then pull him to his seat...
...risk in the elections. So the Republicans are unleashing their most potent weapon: the President himself. As a top White House aide puts it: "We welcome a referendum on Ronald Reagan; he remains enormously popular personally." The President will give all Republican candidates for the Senate and House a pep talk at a reception in the White House this week, and is taping radio spots on behalf of his party's candidates; he is also considering a nationwide TV address close to the election...
Heavyweight Challenger Gerry Cooney quotes its lines with fervor. Olympic Figure Skater David Santee trained to its triumphant sound-track music. Its plot is adapted by feature writers and by coaches for locker-room pep talks. At V.F.W. halls, in cocktail lounges, and surgical scrub rooms, Americans on any occasion of victory or defeat, no matter how evanescent, are liable to exclaim, "It's just like Rocky!" The story of the virtuous and vulnerable heavyweight, Rocky Balboa, the Philadelphia club fighter who "went the distance" (Rocky, 1976) and battled to the championship (Rocky II, 1979), has become...
...that kind of day yesterday for hundreds of alumni who are tilling Cambridge's street and buildings this week for Harvard's biggest pep rally of the year. No matter what kind of food or parties or crazy vendors with funky headbands they franc into, adoration for the college they attended 25 or 50 years ago was the theme...
...such pep talks, plus psychological group training, are not enough at a time when rising inflation and growing unemployment are creating an accumulation of social dynamite that may upset the political stability of Western democracies. They are also not enough in view of the necessity for the West to react in appropriate form to Moscow's arms buildup, and to accept the accompanying financial sacrifices...