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With the consequent good field position, Buckley directed a six-play scoring drive, the highlight a crucial 18-yd. run by seldom-used halfback Jim Acheson. With 10:40 left in the game, Buckley hit Tom Beatrice with a screen pass off the shotgun and the steady halfback went 13 yds. with the score that put Harvard...
...Seldom has an American election headed into such a wildly unpredictable windup...
...patina, however, has neither obscured nor answered the most troubling question about Reagan. Put starkly, that question is whether he is smart enough to be President. The U.S. has seldom demanded that its chief executive officers be intellectuals, of course. But clear-eyed realism, sensitive and discriminating judgment, a feel for power relationships, instinct born of at least a general knowledge of how the System works are all demanded in a President...
...September, Spencer was serving full time on the campaign plane. Usually he sits just a yard from Nancy Reagan, who curdled at the warmonger talk four years ago and who is known to hold a grudge. To her husband, winning is more important than any grudge, which he seldom feels anyway...
...older sense), passing (invisible?) through a "punished land," "too beautiful for its inhabitants"--but passing, at the same time, far too readily from the real world to the spirit world. Hardly getting his feet dusty he writes of"...the toes that attack me/because I am with them so seldom." His is the distance of riddle from truth...