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...Durgin, well, he doesn't mind the anonymity. The St. John high schooler from Lynn received feelers from Penn State, Pitt and Syracuse, but chose to play in the oft-derogated Ivies. "I have no regrets," says the son of a Villanova grid star. "The Ivy League is way ahead of the game. Even if I had never played a down of football, I would be happy here...
...Lyndon H. LaRouche is an old-schooler, and the piles of literature that bow the card tables of his devoted workers are vintage. Every few days during the Granite State contest, the two-page "Campaign News" would appear in LaRouche offices around the state. The paper proves LaRouche is no squeamish campaigner; "Khomeini Backer to Head Procession in Manchester" screams one headline in the Feb. 21 issue, and who can resist reading on? "Ramsey Clark, the defender of the terrorist Red Brigades and the Baader-Meinof gang in Europe, reportedly will be leading a march on the streets of Manchester...
...Congress indicated that an attempt to get the overall jobless rate down to 3% within 18 months would push inflation back up to "a 12% to 13% annual rate" initially, and even more later on. One reason: long before employers hired the last ghetto black or unskilled high-schooler, severe shortages of skilled technical and professional workers would develop, leading to low productivity and inflationary wage boosts. Such a program would be self-defeating, because unrestrained inflation eventually causes job-destroying recession-by pricing houses out of the reach of people who might want to buy them, for instance...
...Dallas, where he was giving his Christian testimony to a packed house of the faithful at the Southern Baptist Convention. The most distinct image I recall from the occasion is that of a mouse-like man with a choir-boy's face and a Sunday schooler's plaintive, sincerely righteous voice, leaning in to the mike to tell of his conversion experience and waving somewhat embarrassedly to the throng of Baptist delegates, his arm draped around president-elect Jaroy Weber, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Lubbock, Texas, a man who last made national headlines when he called...
...most enthusiastic of the parade was Ken Harrelson, who whooped and hollered like a high-schooler who had just won the State Championship and was about to go out with the Homecoming Queen...