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...Iranians responded with attacks of their own, sending American-made Phantom F-4 fighter-bombers against Iraqi cities and installations. A fearful battle was under way. Iraqi armor and infantry punched across 500 miles of desert front at many points, surrounding two key Iranian cities but running into stubborn resistance and counterattacks. In the Shatt and in the northern gulf, naval craft skirmished and bombarded shore installations...
...about 500 lbs. sitting across that desk. He never said anything until the end of the summer. Then he looked at me and said, "You don't deserve to be on this football team." I didn't say anything at first. But I'm kind of stubborn, like him. Finally I said, "Well, I'm coming out there anyway." One of the assistant coaches told me later that that sold him on me. Then I went out and bought a case of beer and drove back to Foley, throwing the empties at every stop sign...
While the Kennedy problem lingers for Carter, the Anderson difference so confidently proclaimed by the earnest and stubborn Congressman from Illinois has not really faded either. If Anderson were to drop out, 37% of his present share of the voters say they would switch to Carter, 28% would go to Reagan and 26% claim they would not vote at all. With Anderson out, Carter narrowly leads Reagan in the nationwide popular vote, 44.5% to 43%. However, the sampling did not examine just how Anderson's presence, or withdrawal, would affect the electoral college vote. Anderson has scored...
...pregnant research areas taken up at this year's Gordon conferences: the structure and function of "endogenous opiates," pain-killing chemicals produced by the body itself, and the new field of bioelectrochemistry that is beginning to draw attention with the recent discovery that electric currents sometimes help knit stubborn bone fractures...
Along the U.S. Gulf Coast, boats, helicopters and other rescue vehicles went on alert. Some 4,500 workers were evacuated from offshore oil rigs. On one mission, a helicopter crashed, killing 13. For all the warnings, a few stubborn Texans refused to move from the path of the oncoming storm. "It's been 19 years since a hurricane crossed the coast," said Cecil Palmer of the National Weather Service's Houston office. "We have many newcomers who don't know what a hurricane is all about and many oldtimers who feel, 'Well, I rode...