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...kind of rosy women's weekly romance to lull the more soft-centered among us and distract us from reality." There was, however, no sense that anyone wanted to forget the country's troubles. Said Donald Williams, 18, a skinhead who came to London from his native Portsmouth to celebrate the nuptials: "I was standing next to a black, and when he cheered I said, 'You're my mate-but only for today, mark you.' " Rather it seemed that the country was, on this day of symbolic union, drawing together to celebrate the traditional values...
...lost the blue-collar vote, which he considered one of his basic constituencies. He lost the most heavily Catholic precincts, in part because he favors federal financing of abortion for poor women when medically necessary. He lost all of New Hampshire's largest cities except Dover and Portsmouth, where he was in agreement with the local opposition to construction of the nearby Seabrook nuclear power plant. And worse prospects lie ahead. After this week's primary in his home state of Massachusetts, Kennedy faces three contests on March 11 in Carter's Southern stronghold: Alabama, Florida...
...staff of the Campaign News sees foreign influence everywhere; the Portsmouth Herald, "controlled by the foreigner, Lord Thomson of Fleet Street," won't allow the docks at Portsmouth to be expanded, the publication complains. Instead, it insists on a pleasure boat marina, with all the attendant "pleasures of Sodom and Gomorrah keeping the local inhabitants employed as low-paid dishwashers, croupiers, shills and errand boys for the wastrel "industries' of Babylon...
...Joan Mondale, Muriel Humphrey-have made New Hampshire a second home. But the biggest campaign boost of all would come from Iran. Jests a White House aide: "Do you think folks would yell 'partisan' if we flew the hostages back to Pease Air Force Base [outside Portsmouth...
Both of the victims were exceptionally tall, one 208 cm (6 ft. 10 in.), the other only 2 in. shorter, and both had been playing in an invitational basketball tournament in Portsmouth, Va. One had a laceration nearly an inch long and half an inch deep on the side of his hand; it required sutures. The other had a severe scrape, also on the side of his hand, that resembled an area from which a skin graft had been removed. Both were suffering from dunk laceration syndrome...