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...pioneer. All week long she seemed at ease in the spotlight. Despite a few iffy moments, Ferraro held her own with the press. With partisan audiences she was unerring: in appearance after appearance she shrewdly ingratiated herself with the various sectors of the Democratic coalition, showing a rapid-fire fluency in the kind of person-to-person political happy talk that will be required for the next 15 weeks of campaigning...
...will be 'stuck' if you happen to be in the wrong place." The local driver, according to the Times, "is professional, coldblooded, and no-room-for-error. As long as no one errs, the flow of traffic is rapid. If an accident does occur, the freeways come to a screeching halt." One digests this, and takes the wheel with a shaky hand...
...Ferraro needed no coaching. "Thank you, Vice President Mondale, " she replied, then paused and observed, "Vice President?it has such a nice ring to it." The line drew appreciative laughter and more applause. When it died down, Ferraro proceeded, in the rapid, hard-edged accents of a native New Yorker, to appeal to several constituencies while introducing herself to her first national audience?all in five minutes...
...Finney, who last summer won the light-weight pairs national championship and will defend that title this summer, the rapid climb of the Radcliffe squad is a lasting memory she says she'll take with her forever...
...enough of a character to have a real imprint on each of its members. Yet despite its many problems, or perhaps because of them. Lionel B residents today still seem to feel just such an imprint Looking back on it now, their words seem to trip over each other, rapid and contradictory, as if welcoming the chance to try to make sense of a year they even yet do not really understand. Most seem to agree that at the center of their freshman year was a paradox: Lionel was one of the closest groups of friends they had ever been...