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...opponent of declining to fight for the nuclear freeze. Mondale made a tub-thumping speech in Tampa suggesting that Hart is for "Big Oil" and "the hospital lobby," that he "attacks entitlements" and that he would force "working families to pay more taxes." (At a 1979 Senate campaign fund raiser for Hart, Mondale had extravagantly praised the Coloradan. "Gary Hart is one of the most decent and compassionate public servants I have ever known in my life. He is brilliant...thoughtful and perceptive...
Rufus Morgan, whose organization hired them to perform at a fund raiser for a firemen's ball, recalls, "Those boys were so fascinating to watch that everybody just gathered around the stage. We didn't dance. We watched and threw money." At Garnett Elementary School, Principal Gladys Johnson invited the boys to perform at an assembly. (Admission: 10¢. Proceeds split with the Jackson family.) About 1,200 students turned out, and this time around, not a rock was thrown. "The children really enjoyed that show," Johnson remembers. "I could not believe how they idolized those Jackson 5 boys." Johnson also...
...matter. The audience will have a good time, maybe the best time they are likely to have all winter. If it happens to be a year when the good old Pudding formula has gone stale--if the dancers can't dance and the plot falls apart after the curtain-raiser--well, the opening night crowd will have a blast just the same. They'll just drink a little more...
...Mondale planners are eager for a quick knockout. Says Fund Raiser Timothy Finchem: "Our concern is how soon we can put this thing away. It means a helluva lot in defeating Reagan." But not every Democrat is likely to simply bow out and join the Fritz blitz...
Trying to fly from Boston to New York City for a fund raiser last week, Gary Hart was grounded because of heavy fog. So the Colorado Senator raced across town to catch the Metroliner. When the train stopped in New Haven, he dashed out to telephone his office. The Metroliner pulled out before he could finish, leaving him stranded. By the time he reached Manhattan on a slower train, many of the potential givers had left. Later in the week he had to have an ingrown toenail surgically treated. In his haste to catch an airplane, he locked his keys...