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...staff broke out bottles and let spirits soar. The former Vice President gleefully awarded T shirts imprinted with I SURVIVED AIR MONDALE to those who had made the trip, and read a "wimp list" of correspondents who had begged off doing so. His aides led weary reporters in a stir-crazy version of the Wabash Cannon Ball...
...vote. The issue will apparently be thrashed out in the convention's platform committee, which Mondale delegates will control. Jackson feels certain that he can get enough support on the committee to take a minority report backing his position to the convention floor, where it could stir strong" emotions. While platform planks have little practical effect, the fight could especially embitter white Southern Democrats, most of whom are strong advocates of the runoff system...
...wagon and a team of horses. He whittled a fiddler. He whittles elephants with ears afloppin'. He whittles mules with ears that work too." Still talking just to the air, Chester got up and said, "My arthritis. If I sit too long I have to get out and stir around a bit." On his way out the door, he passed a man who was just sticking his head in to say hello...
...report was classified top secret and not even given to the Knesset's Committee for Foreign Affairs and Security. But a meticulously worded 15-paragraph summary released by the Israeli government last week caused enough of a stir. According to a commission appointed by Defense Minister Moshe Arens, two of the four Arab terrorists who hijacked an Israeli bus in April were not slain in the ensuing siege, as originally thought. They were captured alive and killed later while in Israeli hands. Although the two-man panel concluded that no commanding officer had ordered the terrorists murdered...
...report criticizes the tendency to sacrifice communities courses to fulfill admissions requirements." "Educators have long observed that pre-medical requirements and prevailing admissions others push college students into majoring in science and stir anxieties that distort the course election and ever, the extracurricular activities of many undergraduates," Bok continues...