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...ready for an end to the hype. Jerry Brown's lowbudget campaign has filled the void Tsongas left behind. The Connecticut primary resulted in a one percentage point difference between Brown and Clinton, and polls indicate that there would have been a majority for Tsongas had he not quit. Showy packaging isn't everything...
...left in 1990 to lead an aborted worker buyout of United Air Lines' parent company (after pocketing $9 million for his work on that deal, he landed as a managing director for investment banker Dillon Read); and Robert S. ("Steve") Miller, another vice chairman and prospective Iacocca heir, who quit in February to go to Wall Street after telling the board that the right management team for Chrysler would be Lutz as top man and Miller himself...
...singer who performed with Red Foley on Ozark Jubilee. When he married his sweetheart Sandy Mahl in 1986, he confesses, "it was the last thing I wanted to do. I hated being tied down." But it was Mahl who kept his hope alive when he wanted to quit Nashville for a while, look for a regular job back home in Oklahoma and maybe try the music business again later. "I'm not makin' this trip every year," she told him. "Either we're diggin' in, or we're goin' home for good." They dug in, and six months later Brooks...
...interests. He is a voracious reader, of everything from Hollywood trade papers to international political journals, and can opine as fluently on David Letterman's monologues as on the Middle East peace talks. "I'm almost as curious about why the royals split up as about why Tsongas quit the Democratic race," he says...
Even before Paul Tsongas quit the show last week, an aide to Bill Clinton described the front runner's new focus in three words: "Bush, Bush, Bush." Clinton believes that a successful presidential candidate must view the primary- and general-election campaigns as a single play in two acts rather than as two one-act dramas; the sooner one can articulate the general campaign's themes the better. So if the schedule holds -- and perhaps as early as this week -- the nominee-presumptive will deliver a major foreign policy address...