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...time and again, that he has not changed his mind. Yet in the aftermath of Gary Hart's withdrawal from the field of Democratic candidates, Cuomo is registering as much as 32% support in the polls, while the only other Democrat on the horizon is Jesse Jackson. Cuomo has pooh-poohed this, saying the polls will change when the public gets to know the other candidates. Last week, however, Cuomo's words and actions had politicos wondering whether he was following a subtle strategy of running for President by not running...
Brown says he thinks people's attitudes are influenced by what they are taught to accept as normal. "Because of your upbringing or programming, if you're brought up to be a Christian, you'll believe in that, but you'll `pooh-pooh' anything labeled as psychic," he says...
...UCLA will send top rebounder, 6-ft., 1-in. "Pooh" Richardson (5.0 r.p.g.), crashing the boards, while centers Jack Haley & Co. do whatever it is they do in lieu of scoring and rebounding. Look for a very early exit by the Bruins...
...indication that he faced any damaging new disclosures. Rather, the former Marine colonel seemed to friends to be tormented by a nagging general sense of failure. As National Security Adviser, he sometimes confessed frustration at being unable to "move these elephants," his unflattering description of the powerful foreign policy Pooh-Bahs in the Reagan Administration...
Senior Writer Otto Friedrich, who wrote on Harvard's history, was virtually born with Crimson blood. Perhaps for that reason, Friedrich pooh-poohs any idea of a Harvard mystique. Says he: "I grew up there, my father (Carl J., who helped create the West German constitution) was a professor of government there, and the life of the faculty was our neighborhood life. I wasn't that impressed. Anyway, I almost flunked out my freshman year." Friedrich quickly recovered, though, and graduated magna cum laude...