Word: shapely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...both requested memberships in a tennis club instead of the traditional watch mementos. Jaroff, 49, took up tennis only six years ago, after pedaling his bicycle through Manhattan's Central Park and observing players in their 60s and 70s on the courts. "They all looked in such good shape," he explains, "that I took it up for exercise. Now it's a burning passion...
Suddenly, what had not long ago seemed to be a Carter runaway was beginning to shape up as a close race indeed. Victory will probably go to the candidate who appeals most successfully to the aspirations and fears of the vast American middle class, a group that is well off by any standard and hopes to go on bettering...
...debates with Carter that he proposed during his acceptance speech. Because of his familiarity with the issues, Ford is convinced he will do well. Negotiating arrangements for the debates, emissaries from the two camps are circling each other like Soviet and American underlings worrying over the table shape for an East-West conference. Ford wants the debates to begin early in September; Carter is holding out for later in the month, presumably to give him more time to prepare. Ford wants to confine the sessions to such single topics as foreign policy or national defense-his strong suits. Carter wants...
...comforting to know that Mr. Ford insists that the vice-presidential nominee have the qualifications to be President. We would have been in much better shape had Mr. Nixon employed this same standard...
Being themselves political buffs, journalists are fascinated by the contending ambitions that shape the "great game of politics" (a phrase that badly needs restudy). But aware of their own impatience during boring stretches of both 1976 conventions, they may wonder about the public's reaction. Can it be that there now exists a two-tiered public response to politics as well as to baseball: a few political fans who will follow the fight over rule 16c as avidly as baseball nuts study box scores, while everybody else is at best only tepidly curious to hear how the game finally...