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...what if The Right Stuff is a hit, seen by millions of moviegoers in coming months? Clearly it could have a more pronounced effect on the campaign than political pros now think. The film introduces the brave young astronaut to an entire generation that has come of age (and voting age) since the early 1960s and vividly reminds anyone older of what undeniably was a glorious push into the New Frontier. If the on-screen Glenn seems somewhat priggish next to the other fighter jocks, he also seems tailor-made for the presidency. Has anyone ever suffered in a primary...
...cigarette puff. Other sensors on Challenger's control panel were normal, and so, with the approval of flight engineers, the crew turned off the trigger-happy sensor, relying for fire warnings on the others aboard. "They handled it with easy skill," said one flight director, "like the old pros that they...
...departure from the essentially movie based programming of HBO. Showtime, Cinemax and The Movie Channel. They are not trying to be all things to all people." As exponents of the technique of "narrowcasting" (aiming at a relatively small and well-defined audience), the two channels add what cable pros call "complementary tiers" to the mix of available programming...
Three seniors from last year's team donned skates at June's National Sports Festival in Colorado Springs, but no Olympic bids materialized for Greg Olson. Greg Britz or Neil Sheehy. The last two are now taking shots at the pros. Britz is chasing pucks at training camp for the Toronto Maple Leafs this week. while defenseman Sheehy, who has already signed a contract, hopes to crack the lineup of the Calgary Flames, a club conveniently short of blueliners. The NHL took an active interest in two other Crimson pucksters in the June amatcut draft Philadelphia took the rights...
...while the pros are saying no, the grass roots are shouting yes. Rural farmers are inspired by Jackson's sermons on the value of the vote; teen-age urban blacks are turned on by his clenched-fist determination; the downtrodden hear in his ringing tones an authentic voice for their concerns. A hustler, perhaps, but a hustler on their behalf. "He does a lot better with the masses than with the leadership," says Holman of the National Urban Coalition. Wherever he goes he attracts enthusiastic crowds, rousing them, inspiring them and drawing them into his quest. "I feel...