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...vanished. Gerald Ford's second-debate foot-in-mouth was cured. Both candidates were more poised, presidential and restrained than before-in fact, at times they sounded downright angelic. Both avoided the kind of fatal gaffe that inspires a politician's nightmares. The verbal slips were slight. Old Football Player Ford began to predict improved economic prospects for "the fifth quarter" and quickly checked himself. Carter, often accused of changing his mind, said he would select Supreme Court Justices "who would most accurately reflect my own basic political philosophy as best I could determine...
...MIDWEST. Carter runs well ahead in Kentucky, Minnesota and West Virginia; he has slight leads in Missouri and Oklahoma. Ford leads in Kansas, Nebraska, North Dakota and Michigan, though a United Auto Workers blitz for Carter could hurt the President. South Dakota, once in Carter's column, and Indiana now lean to Ford. Illinois, Iowa and Wisconsin, where McCarthy is a factor, are tossups. So is crucial Ohio, although Carter is believed to be gaining support in the traditionally Republican areas downstate, where his farming background and Southern roots are appreciated...
...immigrant. Young Democrat is generally somber-suited, dark-tied, prim and proper. His opponent's jaunty tarn o'shanter has become a symbol for the unconventionality he savors in both dress and speech. It could happen only in California, and whether the voters will opt for slight quirkiness or substantial blandness in the final scene may not be known until late at night...
JOBS. The Labor Department reported that after rising for three months in a row, the nation's unemployment rate showed a slight improvement; it edged down to 7.8% in September, from 7.9% in August. But while the level of unemployment among women, young people and blacks declined slightly, the rate for household heads, the backbone of the labor force, rose from 5.2% to 5.4%. Thus the last jobless figure to appear before the Nov. 2 election shows that 7.4 million Americans are still unemployed-a statistic that is certain to cause Ford trouble...
...called her a "goddamn, smirking, useless female war correspondent." In the course of 17 long years (and these 537 long pages) he pronounced her a "camp-follower," a "scavenger" and a "slut," smashed her typewriter to the floor, threw wine in her face before friends, and hit her ("a slight slap...