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...time Olympians - and experience in the Games, especially against a home-town crowd, can go a long way. "We are very very satisfied," said U.S. Women's national team coordinator Martha Karolyi on the final day of competition. "It shows if you systematically work very consistently during the whole quadrennium, the results will come...
...internal affairs of a sovereign nation, the United States. Since all agree that the country's internal affairs are in woeful shape, this should give the Democrats a fine opportunity to pelt him with rotten fruit and dead cats in the most important political yard sale of the quadrennium, next February's New Hampshire primary. Here in New Hampshire, however, we are looking at our watches and asking, "What Democrats? What primary...
Just as athletes grab their discuses and bobsleds to compete in age-old competitions every quadrennium, Harvard summer school students will this week unsheathe their pens, take their seats and hear some grad student shout their equivilent, "Let the Games Begin...
...better or worse, mostly worse, the U.S. presidential campaigns begin earlier and earlier each quadrennium. Aspirants gear up sooner; indeed, some, like Democrats Henry Jackson and George Wallace, never really geared down from their 1972 campaigns. And likely prospects are finding the need to declare themselves in or out sooner than ever before. For their own particular reasons, Gerald Ford recently felt compelled to assert definitely that he would run in 1976, and Edward Kennedy that he would not. Last week there were two more decisions for '76, both by liberal Democrats, one opting...
...Cost of treatment, $4,000,000, had almost wiped out the emergency aid fund of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. Polio news was mostly bad: 1946 is the fourth consecutive epidemic year. The four-year total: 65,000 cases, more than twice as many as in the preceding quadrennium...