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...swimmers turned a potentially close meet into a rout by setting the tone early. John Pearson and Tim Wood humiliated Cornell's Bob Buche, who dominated the 1650-meter freestyle last year at the Eastern Seaboards...
...make that a rout...
...faith in the stability of banks. Wrote Thomas Jefferson in 1816: "I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies." Andrew Jackson, who never concealed his distrust of powerful moneymen, told a group of them, "You are a den of vipers and thieves. I intend to rout...
...knee jerk," says Mondale Campaign Chairman James Johnson, refusing to see any general portents in Tuesday's terrible results. "It was a victory of personality far more than party." Clark Clifford, an astute party elder, is not fretting either. He recalls that four years after the Democratic rout of 1964, the Republicans took the White House, and that four years after the Republican rout of 1972, the Democrats took it back. "I've been in and around presidential campaigns for 40 years," says Clifford. "And every time there's been a landslide, people say the party that...
...systems were go for a Crimson rout, but my, how things can change...