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Hyperbole and polls aside, Connally needs only one vote-that of the presidential nominee. Some confidants of both Ford and Reagan reckon that Connally could be the most electric No. 2 that either man could choose. Reagan's advisers say Connally would be a "very acceptable" running mate. Notes one top aide: "I'd love to see Connally take on Jimmy Carter." White House and Ford committee aides report that Connally support runs especially strong among Reagan backers. Thus Ford could partly mollify the conservative Reagan wing by tapping Connally...
...national scene, he claims credit for having pushed Ford into some positions more conservative than the President wanted to take. For better or worse, Reagan has struck a responsive chord in Republican thinking that may not win him the nomination, but that will still be a force to reckon with if he loses...
...especially mad at Washington. Rather it is that Washington is so out of touch with the country. Those elitists up there are in orbit by themselves." Minneapolis Tribune Editor Charles Bailey feels that Washington fails to understand that a new self-confidence has developed in many communities, where people reckon that they can manage their own affairs...
...poetry easier to write than to read. The demolitions of old poetic constraints-inaugurated by such elitists as T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound-have allowed just about any flyspecked page to masquerade as divine afflatus. "Poetry," Pound insisted, "must be as well written as prose," but he did not reckon on the grunts, snorts and limping non sequiturs that his epigones would later commit to paper under the banner...
...days on the subject, but my point is not to advocate that clubs should be banned by an enlightened Administration or an aroused student body. That clubs lived through the late sixties amazes me, yet attests to their strength as an institution. They are needed, evidently. And I reckon these women need one too. To these undergraduates who thrill to fly in the stratosphere of high society, and whirl about in the expensive costume party of formal dinners, dances, and cocktail parties, final clubs are needed for a happy existence here. Everybody develops their own escape hatches from the weirdness...