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Politically his background is just as checkered. Bush was the Republican's utility infielder, a ballplayer who has never held one position long enough to know it well or to be able to be judged by his performance at that slot. In a short six years, from 1971 to 1977, Bush was chief delegate to the United Nations, National Chairman of the G.O.P., chief envoy to Peking and director of the Central Intelligence Agency. The public does not seem to mind this grocery list of short-term administrative posts; Bush bills himslf as a leader "the country won't have...
...period, that statement could not have rung truer. Setting down after the first few shaky minutes, Harvard hustled on the offense and presented a solid defensive wall to the frustrated Huskies. Defenseman Alice Hill refused to let Northeastern shoot past the slot, while co-captain Firkins Reed consistently moved the puck up center ice into Huskie territory...
...Hilaire held the first slot for much of the race, with Beckford on her shoulder and the Crimson's Kristen Linsley just behind. With less than a quarter mile to go, Beckford pushed by St. Hilaire and held the lead to the finish...
...Eisenhower, the war hero, finally forced to declare his party, blitzkrieged Robert Taft in 1952; John F. Kennedy '40 impressed regulars by mopping up in 1960; it's after New Hampshire that the survivors start giving their aides funny looks, wondering who's going to fit in which Cabinet slot. Sometimes New Hampshire just plays the non sequitur: with two hot-to-trot Republicans (Barry Goldwater and Nelson Rockefeller) breathing down their necks in 1964, Granite State voters gave an easy victory to Henry Cabot Lodge, then U.S. Ambassador to South Vietnam, of all places, conducting a long-distance...
Stimpson, in the third slot, had four match points against Ann Cascel in her fourth game; but Cascel came back to take that game and went on to win the match...