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Like Carter, Dukakis is trying not to offend. He does not want Jesse Jackson, the runner-up in the primary campaign and the nation's best-know Black politician, to alienate potential white voters and Reagan-Democrats, who might get uncomfortable if Jackson were to have too visible a presence in the Dukakis campaign...
Both the U.S. and the Soviets use electronics to study form and technique, to test aerobic capacity and to develop speed and coordination via devices much like computer games. Sometimes the results are practical: demonstrating to a runner that he is placing more stress than needed on his ankles. Other times there is apparent tech-cess: the $1 million flume built by the U.S.O.C. to study swimming has been used by only a handful of athletes since it became operational in May. Numerically, the Soviets have a seemingly huge lead in sports-science researchers, although the different systems make numbers...
Where are those recruits? Well, they're going to be wearing the orange and gold of 1987 Ivy champion Princeton or the red and blue of 1987 Ivy runner-up Penn...
Just such imagination, vividly expressed, is what brought Phillips the artistic directorship in 1975, when he was 32, and the same qualities made him the front runner to succeed Neville. According to highly placed sources at Stratford, the board's negotiations with Phillips have broken down, and there is some concern that, as a result, he may also eventually give up the young company. For the moment, however, the team of Neville and Phillips has made Stratford not only the biggest theater in North America but one of the very best...
GARY Hart became the first victim. The revelation that he had spent the night with a Florida model, Donna Rice, proved so damaging as to end Hart's campaign even though he was the clear front-runner at the time...