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Judging from the 550 people who showed up at a roller rink in tiny Eldridge, Iowa, to eat fried chicken and meet the candidate last Thursday, Gramm's bet may be a smart one. The overflow crowd, coming at the beginning of a two-day bus tour around the state, caught Gramm's organizers off guard. Extra tables had to be brought in from the local fire department and satellite parking arranged a quarter mile away. "Is this heaven?" wondered a pleased Gramm as he surveyed the gathering. To a Dole operative the next morning, it sounded more like hell...
...when he awoke the next morning, the thrill was gone. The next five days, between Friday morning and the final decision Tuesday to pull the plug, were an emotional roller coaster. Powell arrived home Saturday afternoon to find his house staked out. Everyone knew a decision was coming. He spoke with a few friends by telephone that afternoon, and running was still a possibility. He even picked the announcement day--Nov. 22, the anniversary of John F. Kennedy's assassination and the eve of Thanksgiving, America's family...
Thus, for those of you who are new to the Harvard hockey scene--or maybe perhaps just chose to block out of your mind the roller coaster ride that the 1994-95 season was--here are a few things to watch for tomorrow night...
...Election Day is, believe it or not, the quietest day in the campaign office," Mayberry recalled. "You are just preparing for the night. That night, when the election results start coming in, you have the mental calculator cranking all night. It is an emotional roller coaster...
...based on a script of Crichton's that had been moldering around Hollywood for 22 years, is just the latest evidence that Crichton hits more passes than anyone else at the high roller's table, even with old dice. From his best-selling The Andromeda Strain (the first novel he wrote under his own name), which became a hit movie in 1971, through Jurassic Park, with a worldwide box-office take of $912 million the most popular movie of recorded history, he is a giant even among those other pop novelists--John Grisham, Stephen King, Tom Clancy--whom Hollywood...