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...members of the prestigious Council on Foreign Relations considered their ballots for the eight open seats on the organization's 27-person board of directors, Henry Kissinger, 58, who was running for his second three-year term, had to seem like a shoo-in. There were, after all, only nine candidates in the race: Kissinger, former Treasury Secretary W. Michael Blumenthal, 55, Xerox Chairman C. Peter McColough, 58, Citibank Chairman Walter Wriston, 61, Economist Marina von Neumann Whitman, 46, Chicago Sun-Times Publisher James Hoge, 45, former State Department Official William Rogers, 54, Washington Post Columnist Philip Geyelin...
...Koch is the elective shoo-in that he appears, however, it is not only because of what people know and see about him, but what they guess about him as well. New Yorkers know that Koch seems a hard-nose. What they guess about him is that he is not the hard-nose he seems, that he is in stead a quite naive man who may have toughened up because of various treacheries and disappointments, but who remains fundamentally naive nonetheless. It is said of Koch that he trusts others too little. It is more likely that he has trusted...
...think anything has changed, except people are paying higher taxes," grouses ex-Mayor Kucinich. Yet most observers rate Voinovich a shoo-in to win a second term this fall...
...avoids controversies as if they were fatal diseases. As a Democrat in a city where his party has a 5-to-1 lead in registrations, Caliguiri (pronounced Cal-i-jeery) would be favored for reelection. But the diffident mayor is so popular that barring disaster, he is a shoo-in for a second four-year term next November...
Giscard's ambitions are no secret in Paris, even if his wife Anne-Aymone has tried to build suspense by telling interviewers that his retirement would give the family more time together. What is new is that the President is no longer considered a shoo-in. The Socialist-Communist Alliance's scorching defeat in the 1978 legislative elections, and the ensuing disarray within France's leftist opposition, had given the impression that Giscard could be re-elected without much effort. As recently as November, polls gave him 59% of the vote in a runoff against Mitterrand...