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...floating too many rumors; we don't know how accurate they are, and I don't think anyone else does." He has watched the Republican team float names just to see how much opposition they generate. The process has claimed some victims. William Simon thought himself a shoo-in to be Reagan's Secretary of the Treasury. Then, after being subjected to what he calls "an overt hatchet job," including leaks about his unpopularity with some Senate Republicans, Simon withdrew, pleading personal reasons. But he is bitter, and includes "the nosiness and bias" of the press...
...while assuring voters that they are eliminating waste in other areas of the budget. Incumbents also benefit from a paradox: while voters consistently seem to distrust Congress as a whole, they usually admire their own legislators. Thus North Dakota's veteran G.O.P. Congressman Mark Andrews is considered a shoo-in for the Senate seat being vacated by retiring Republican Milton Young. Says a disgruntled Democrat: "Andrews and God occupy the same niche here." Of the House incumbents, 51 have no opponent, scores face only token opposition, and 95% are expected to be reelected...
Luke tries to shoo him away but discovers that this is his Jedi master...
...road the Celtics were the biggest draw in the league. Bird finished the season ranking 16th in scoring (an average 21.3 points per game) and tenth in rebounds (10.4 per game), and he dished off an average of 4.5 assists. The 6-ft. 9-in. forward is a virtual shoo-in for Rookie of the Year honors and has been touted for the league's M.V.P. award as well. Says Auerbach: "Usually a player with his kind of hullabaloo disappoints, but Larry has more than lived up to his notices. As a player, and even more as a person...
...contrast, Cornell may have the hardest slate. The Big Red travels to Vermont next week, meets Princeton and Providence in Ithaca, and wraps things up March 8 when it faces off against B.U. at Walter Brown. None of those games are shoo-ins, and Cornell just might drop all four...