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...social liberal and fiscal conservative; he loudly supports a constitutional amendment requiring a balanced budget and favors tax-cutting schemes like Proposition 13. He figures to draw a lot of New Hampshire's seacoast votes with his strong and consistent opposition to nuclear power, resenting recent Kennedy efforts to "steal away the issue...
After a two-minute stall, the Quakers called time out; and on the ensuing inbound pass, Allen grabbed the ball and deposited a clean layup off the steal, narrowing the score to 70-64 with 2:43 showing on the clock...
After dominating overtime period number two with a key bucket and daring steal. Taylor led the weary Crimson five back onto the floor for what would be the final five minutes of play. The overhead scoreboard in Thompson Arena read Harvard 69; Dartmouth...
Bush it was. The final tally gave him 31.6%, Reagan 29.5%, Senator Howard Baker 15.2% and John Connally 9.3%. To capture Iowa and steal a march on his rivals, Bush began planning in December 1978 with Jim Baker, his longtime Texas friend, who had managed President Ford's 1976 campaign. The pair set up a savvy, politically experienced organization. Gradually Bush expanded his contacts around the state until he almost seemed to be a native. His wife Barbara, his four sons-Neil, Marvin, Jeb and George-and his daughter Dorothy carried their father's cause...
G.O.P. National Chairman Bill Brock calls the patronage approach "a blatant political effort to rig the count." Says he: "Allowing the political machine in Chicago to count the people in underpopulated districts is issuing a license to steal." Replies Barabba: "If there is an organized effort to rig the totals, our checking procedure will catch it." Perhaps. But, say Republicans, don't count...