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...chartered bus last week chugged along a Nebraska road, a jack rabbit darted out from the underbrush and ran by its side. For a while the race was close, but the bus finally gained on the hare and outdistanced him. Inside the bus, Presidential Candidate Frank Church chuckled over the good omen: "The tortoise is doing it again...
Idaho's Senator Church, 51, is certainly the tortoise of this year's presidential race. The latest candidate to enter the contest, Church announced only last month, when the real-life rabbits were already well ahead. Before the primaries began, Church's strategy was to offer a fresh face and funds just when the other candidates would presumably be starting to wear out. He has adhered to that strategy, but at this stage he finds Jimmy Carter still looking remarkably bushy-tailed and shrewd old Br'er Rabbit Hubert Humphrey poised to jump into the brier...
...morning after his primary victory in Wisconsin, the President went out of his way to share the psychological spoils with Kissinger. Said he: "I thought that the results certainly fully justified my faith in Henry Kissinger. That was an issue in Wisconsin because my opponent made it an issue." Rabbit-chopping the air for emphasis, Ford then added: "I think he is one of the greatest Secretaries of State in the history...
...already and the parties were in second gear going into the first hairpin turn, yelping at the little mechanical rabbit and jostling for position. It was time to move to a new location, close the shop out, hold a 50 per cent sale. The only pun we could dredge up concerned the cataracts of the Nile, but all the Egyptian suntanned silt fucked up our upstairs wiring...rinse it out, waterfalls, going over the edge of the abyss...
...personal composite of the man and his interests. Of course, this can be good or bad, depending primarily on whether you find a writer's background interesting. But the Updike admirer will be delighted, feeling instantly a companion to his sympathies, and discovering again the compassionate intelligence that sprung Rabbit, Chiron and others on us as sylvan metaphors for American life...