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Supporters rang brass bells in celebration. Swooning youths snaked through dances of joy. Party workers tearfully embraced one another. With a sobriety that contrasted with the noisy jubilation all around him, Edward P.O. Seaga, leader of the Jamaica Labor Party, emerged into the spotlight at his Kingston campaign headquarters and claimed "the most dramatic electoral victory in the history of the country." Unlike much of the preceding campaign's rhetoric, this was no exaggeration...
...John Anderson's Independent bid stole the media spotlight, and Commoner has had to resort to tactics like his "Bullshit" radio commercials to capture any attention...
...that Jimmy Carter first referred to during the 1976 campaign, and that Ronald Reagan keeps citing in his attacks on the President, was concocted during the 1973-75 recession by the late economist Arthur Okun, who called it the discomfort index. He saw it as a puckish way to spotlight the nation's economic ills. The measure is simply the sum of the inflation and jobless rates. On Election Day of 1976 the index stood at 12.8%, with inflation at 5% and unemployment at 7.8%. The rate has climbed to 20% during Carter's White House years...
Women's cross country (4-2, second in Ivies): Darlene Beckford has run her way into the spotlight for the Crimson this semester, winning the individual Ivy crown. Kristen Linsley has followed closely in her footsteps, coming second behind her in most races and third in the Ivies. Both have made All-Ivy, but the team fell short of copping the title by one excruciating point, to Princeton...
...world under unforgiving scrutiny, Jimmy Carter is, remarkably, harder to figure out now than he was in 1973 when, as Governor of Georgia, he appeared as the mystery guest on the television show What's My Line? and stumped the panel. Though he lives in the spotlight, Carter remains an intensely private person. His hobbies are those of a loner-fishing by himself for hours on end in a Georgia pond or a Pennsylvania trout stream, or jogging through the woods of Camp David, to which he and Rosalynn now retreat almost weekly. Except for Charles Kirbo, the Atlanta...