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...even second best. (Gary Hart's is.) In the South, where three key primaries (Alabama, Florida, Georgia) are scheduled for Super Tuesday on March 13, Glenn should be favored by the generally conservative electorate. Yet somehow he has lost a 39% to 33% lead over Mondale. Says Pollster Claibourne Darden: "Not only are the figures reversed from three months ago, they're stretching out in the other direction-in Mondale's favor...
...finished first among eight candidates in last month's nonpartisan primary. King, a former state legislator, ran a strong second in the elimination heat, but the arithmetic was against him in the two-way general election. Noting that blacks constitute only 20% of Boston's electorate, Political Pollster Thomas Kiley said flatly, "A black candidate cannot achieve more than 40% of the vote in this city...
...self-conscious "publishing event": a 616-page special issue of Esquire, hailing "50 Americans who made the difference." In attendance were some of the issue's glittery contributors, including Norman Mailer, William Whittle and Kurt Vonnegut back subjects, Polio Vaccine Pioneer Dr. Jonas Salk, Boxer Muhammad Ali, Pollster George Gallup and Feminist Betty Friedan. Perhaps the central figures, however, were Phillip Moffitt, 37, and Christopher Whittle, 36, the Tennesseans who bought out investors including then Editor Clay Felker for a reported $3.5 million in 1979, when Esquire was losing $25,000 a day. Chairman Whittle's gala announcement...
...moment-he has been able to channel and perhaps even capitalize on the complex emotions aroused by both events. Despite the Administration's continued worry about the situation in Lebanon, it has been able to win surprising acceptance for the projection of American power abroad. Indeed, as Democratic Pollster Peter Hart noted, "Reagan has ended the week stronger than he began...
...derives from the audience's initial reaction to the stereotypes the characters present. There's the gung ho Zola sporting a fatigue jacket with more buttons with slogans on it than a campus kiosk. There's the mercenary Kevin (Brad Dalton) able to wield statistics better than a Gallup pollster for whom efficiency is more important than substance. The incongruity of pink and green Joan (Fori Daniel) is good for a few laughs when she walks onto the room boyfriend (Eliot Meyers) in tow. She reminds us of our own foibles when she apologizes for begin late. ("We went...