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PERISH THE THOUGHT. Illinois, renowned for its unsmiling rough-and-tumble political campaigns, has been worth a few laughs this election season. Out of the blue, Democratic Gubernatorial Challenger Adlai E. Stevenson III, 52, has publicly denied being a "wimp," though no one, not even Republican Incumbent "Big Jim" Thompson, 46, ever accused him of being one. At the same time, Thompson, seeking an unprecedented third term, was hurt early on by Illinois' faltering farm and industrial economy, his overly ardent support of Reagan, and revelations that he had accepted valuable gifts from constituents and people doing business with...
...late October), certain patterns have already emerged. One cornerstone show is Ripley's Believe It or Not!, starring Jack Palance as a sort of host-narrator who guides the gullible down shadowy byways of history, folklore, sociology and pseudo science. Palance, who has the congeniality of Robert Louis Stevenson's body snatcher, goes in for twisted smiles of irony, as if he were trying to bite open a marble. He is the only presiding television host who actually seems to pronounce ellipses. When he says, "Witness the death rites of a Balinese prince in a fiery ceremony designed...
...from our allies in Europe was intense, and their support sturdy. The Organization of American States gave the moral and legal authority of its regional backing to the quarantine, making it plain that Soviet nuclear weapons were profoundly unwelcome in the Americas. In the U.N., Ambassador Adlai Stevenson drove home with angry eloquence and unanswerable photographic evidence the facts of the Soviet deployment and deception...
Their disparate styles figure prominently in a campaign between two political moderates. The Governor, 46, seems to be much that Stevenson is not: big and bluff, and happy to chat with anyone. Thompson, with $4 million in campaign funds (to $1.3 million for Stevenson), worked the crowd at Chicago's Labor Day Parade, wearing a hard hat and a Chicago Bulls windbreaker. "We had 4,000 Thompson balloons," he said. "We gave out stickers to everyone. There were only four Adlai hats and two pins-and Adlai didn't see them because he spent the day with...
Chicago voters in particular remember Thompson's career there as a crusading U.S. Attorney who won 300 political-corruption convictions. But "Mr. Clean" seemed a bit besmirched earlier this year, after disclosures that as Governor he had accepted expensive gifts from people doing business with the state. Stevenson has declined to harp on that affair. Such tempting distractions from his economic analyses, he feels, merely feed the media's "appetite for the sensational...