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What started as a shoo-in has evolved into a tight, tough three-man race. The early leader was seven-term Congressman Barry Gold water Jr., 43, of Los Angeles, whose famous name has enormous appeal for the state's conservatives. BARRY GOLDWATER FOR THE U.S. SENATE, A TRADITION goes his slogan, and one TV spot shows him sitting on the Capitol steps with dad. Goldwater, however, now appears to be running neck and neck with Wilson and another seven-term Congressman, Paul (Pete) McCloskey of Menlo Park, near San Francisco. A Los Angeles Times poll released last week...
Laboring through her fifth exercise class of the day, East Coast Type A puffs "shoo shoo" in response to a dazzlingly fit former cheerleader's exhortation to "blow it out." The formerly flaccid Type A has lost 5 lbs. and 3 in. She has stopped smoking and can jog for 20 minutes. She agrees with Mel: "I want to feel like this forever. ' ' -By Jane O'Reilly
Fairfield's citizens blew whistles, banged pots and rang cowbells to shoo the flocks. The starlings stayed. Aerial explosives failed to scare them off. A captured starling, rumor has it, was strangled, his death squeals recorded, and the tape played over loudspeakers. The birds were only briefly gulled...
...also a novelty for Yale a squad that hasn't finished in the top eight in the ECAC since 1978-9. Two weeks ago, the Elis looked like a shoo-in to win he division and get home ice for the first round, but losses to Maine, Brown and Northeastern and last week's 1-1 tie in Cambridge have shoved than back in the Ivy peck...
...from his wife and persuading her to abandon her Julie Andrews-like image with a nude-to-the-waist turn in the X-rated redo. This the real-life Andrews manages with aplomb and utterly winning self-humor. If they gave a good-sport Oscar, she would be a shoo...