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John Connally, meanwhile, seemed to be running out of steam. And cash. He had pinned a great deal-perhaps too much-on the outcome in South Carolina, frankly admitting that his national campaign depended on his winning there or finishing a close second. Said Connally: "This is the only place we've really worked." To support his cause, Connally enlisted two of the state's most popular and powerful politicians: former Governor James Edwards and Republican Senator Strom Thurmond. In particular, Thurmond was campaigning for Connally as though his own career were at stake. With the Texan...
...Says Sy Zachar, an analyst working on a study of physical plant maintenance funded by the Carnegie Corp.: "It's easy to find some foundation eager to donate a new tax-deductible library or a shiny new anything. But what donor wants to put a plaque on a steam pipe?" At the University of California at Berkeley, administrators nickname the list of "deferred maintenance" problems the "Crummy and Seedy Project...
...highest readiness status, and there are frequent alerts. Some crews in fully armed planes are able to take off within five minutes. Others on 15-and 30-minute alerts wait in the ready room prepared to dash to their aircraft. On a typical day, each carrier's steam-propelled catapults launch 90 sorties. Some warplanes, such as the Mach 2.4 F-14 Tomcat, make combat runs, dropping practice bombs on targets towed by U.S. ships. Others, like the RF4 Phantom, fly reconnaissance missions. Confronting Task Force 70 is a Soviet flotilla of about ten guided missile cruisers, destroyers...
...outrage that a boycott of the 1980 Olympics is even being considered. The U.S. athletes work under their own steam, without Government aid, toward the biggest achievement in sport, and now the Government wants to use them as a weapon. What could be more unfair...
...being an artist. His is not an easy life; some of the violent incidents from life in Belfast still linger in his head, coiling around that field where he cultivates his poetry. But in Field Work, Seamus Heaney advances beyond the political bog. His acres breathe, and his road steam...