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Jenkins' victory margin belied the close race that preceded it. Right up to election day, opinion polls gave him at best a slight edge over his rivals. In the end, it seemed, it was the sheer accumulation of smiles and shoe leather and handclasps that put him over the top. At times exuberant with enthusiasm, at other moments almost weighed down with weariness, the 61-year-old political veteran toured the streets with the doggedness of a fledgling candidate standing for his first seat...
...block from the fault, Joe Crevea, 70, and three of his friends on San Juan Bautista's volunteer fire department sit for hours on the "liars' bench" in front of the shoe-repair store. Old Joe guesses he has been in 100 quakes but never walks up to view the fault, fearing the fire alarm may scream while he is gone. His nonchalance is widely shared. "It is like living next to the Mississippi River," says a San Juan Bautista housewife...
...culmination came in February, when the wrestlers walked off the mat with their first Ivy League title in history, an event that had been long-awaited by the Crimson hopefuls In the recent past, league opponents had beaten the Crimson wrestlers badly, but this year Harvard put the shoe on the other foot...
...restrict his activities." Coburn and Fox say that Counter is free to ask for more funds on a "program-by-program basis," which in academic financing implies less independence than if a program is just budgeted initially at a higher amount. Counter himself has said that the "shoe-string budget" under which he has operated "limits tremendously the amount of things I'd like...
...same procedures used on prehistoric footprints to modern mysteries. "There are 46 points of measurement and 120 points to examine for shape," she says. "I have not yet found even so-called identical twins with absolutely identical foot prints." She can identify barefoot prints as well as match a shoe to its wearer. Says Robbins: "If you'll check your shoes, you can see the marks for your toes...