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...that other nations deliberately try to influence our elections. What happens, he judges, is that events always quicken around a U.S. election, and foreign powers hurry to protect their own interests in a time of political change. The fallout echoes through our nation, and it can influence a vital segment of the electorate...
...doubles segment, the number-three team of Susan Morganstein and Kristen Mertz looked good in a 6-0, 6-3 win, while the top two teams of Roberts-Pe and Meyer-Kalish dropped only three games between them in taking straight set triumphs...
...doubles segment of the tournament the racquetwomen proved equally impressive. The all-freshman duo of Schulman and Pe was unseeded in the tournament, having never played together before. But they didn't let this lack of experience hamper them...
...Games show, a stunt driver named Spunky piloted a car off a 45-ft.-high ramp into a lake. The camera focused on the clenched face of his wife as rescue divers made their way to the sunken auto. Would Spunky survive his dive? (Answer: yes.) In another segment, Motorcyclist Rex Black well roared off a ramp and over two parked helicopters as their blades whirled at 350 r.p.m. "He barely cleared the last blade!" exulted the commentator as a slow-motion replay showed just how close Blackwell had come to being converted to steak tartare...
Galbraith noted liberals' "better tendency than conservatives to accommodate to circumstances," adding that "a large segment of conservatives value a romantic return to the 19th century" that the liberal consensus is likely to return once it finds solutions for economic problems, which he said are responsible for "the difficult travail of liberalism at the moment...