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...Administration's efforts to reunite the bitterly divided Republican Party in Florida failed and Rep. William Cramer, a shoo-in before his primary fight with Harrold Carswell, lost to Democratic State Sen. Lawton Chiles, a political unknown who eschewed TV commercials for a highly publicized hike across the state. "Walkin' Lawton's" running mate, State Sen. Reubin Askew, also won, ending the stormy political career of Gov. Claude Kirk...
...Rafferty is running for a third term. He is slaying all visible dragons, from teacher strikes to compulsory busing for integration ("impossible to implement"). Given the conservative tide in California, he should be a shoo...
...nomination of G. Harrold Carswell, and then turned around and "admitted" he had made "a damn fool mistake." Nevertheless, the Democratic challenger for Scott's seat, State Senator William G. Sesler, is running a poor race. He suffers from lack of recognition and lack of money. Scott seems a shoo...
...scarlet-robed members of the College of Cardinals filed into the Vatican's Pauline Chapel for a solemn Mass in honor of Cardinal Zacchia, who was considered a shoo-in for election as the next Pope. The incumbent, Pope Urban VIII, supposedly lay dying in his villa at Castel Gandolfo 17 miles away in the Alban hills, and the cardinals were eager to show their esteem for the heir apparent. Just as the Mass was about to begin, the doors of the chapel swung open and Urban VIII, clad in full pontifical robes, strode in. Cardinal Zacchia abruptly collapsed...
...year, despite the obstacles and for reasons as varied as the candidates themselves, women are returning to the political lists in force: nearly a score of women are campaigning for election to major offices this fall. Ten of the eleven incumbents are up for reelection. All seem to be shoo-ins, and at least two of the newcomers appear certain to carry their races as well...