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...arsenals of John Glenn and Walter Mondale seemed to pack less punch. After the Ohioan's resounding defeat in Iowa, Media Strategist David Sawyer abruptly switched from a "video resume" of Glenn's accomplishments to direct, no-nonsense voter appeals. Said Sawyer: "Everyone agreed we had to do something dramatic." Six days before the primary, Glenn taped a five-minute address in the home of a Nashua, N.H., supporter, urging voters to display their Yankee independence. The unedited videotape was rushed to Boston's station WBZ by helicopter seven minutes before its scheduled broadcast time. The spot...
...French government, which was upset about the Soviet-inspired imposition of martial law in Poland only seven weeks earlier. But in Chernenko's talk with French Premier Pierre Mauroy, says a French official who attended the meeting, the Soviet visitor came across as "a man of conviction and even punch." At one point, Mauroy referred to "heaven" as he described the importance of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland. This remark elicited a flash of that rarest of Chernenko's known qualities, a sense of humor. "Heaven," he quipped, "is already inhabited?by our cosmonauts...
...near Portland, Ore. The portrait his parents give is of a bright boy who skipped two grades in school, was shy and defensive and, says his mother, got "straight A's in the classroom, but straight F's in the playground. I thought he was going to punch his way all the way through life." The now celebrated episode in which he was kicked off the U.S. ski team in 1981 for being out of condition still seems to rankle Johnson (his relations with Alpine Director Bill Marolt are clearly touchy), but his mother thinks...
Vote getting in the Granite State is retail business. The state is so tiny (267,000 Democratic and independent voters) and the campaign season so long that the candidates must harvest votes household by household. Factory workers can hardly punch the clock in the morning without first having to shake a candidate's hand, and registered Democrats are not surprised to get several calls a night from the 1,000 or so phones working the state for different camps...
With "And the Ship Sails On," Fellini holds up a picture only to have a terrible fist punch right through it. But because so little is known about what and who has been destroyed, the sense of loss felt cannot be very great...