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...consummate campaigner, in the White House or on the stump, he is outwardly personal and personable, whether relating the immigrant past of his ancestors or his 82-year-old mother's hip operation. He has had more Americans into the White House as visitors than any other President in history. Records show he has held more televised news conferences -59-and had his picture taken individually with more people than any of his predecessors. He cites the facts himself, proudly, as if they prove that he is not the distant figure his critics depict...
...active in Dixon during his youth). He even maintains, "I don't want to go back to the so-called simple life. It wasn't simple at all." But he says that only after he has been backed into the corner that is reality. On the stump, the message is unadorned. As he told a rally in Paterson, N.J., "My idea of the way to start [as President] is to take Government off the backs of the people and make you free again...
...mention that some Canadians "felt a little squeamish" at the sight of Cancer Victim Terry Fox's [Sept. 15] occasionally bloody stump and his face contorted in pain as he attempted his long-distance run across the country. I did not feel squeamish. My face was wet with tears because he ran for my friend, for my uncle, for my father-in-law. His run was against a universal enemy, cancer, that touches...
...McGovern has begun closing the gap with an aggressive campaign that belies his reserved style on the stump. He reminds voters that he, too, is a fervent backer of farm price supports, that he is the No. 2 Democrat on the Senate Agriculture Committee, and that he supports increased benefits for the elderly (more than 17% of South Dakota's population is over 60, one of the highest percentages in the nation). He makes no apologies for being a liberal, which he defines as "one who believes the power of the U.S. Government ought to be thrown...
...huge bony mass like a loaf, while from the back of the head hung a bag of spongy fungus-looking skin, the surface of which was comparable to brown cauliflower. . . From the upper jaw there projected another mass of bone. It protruded from the mouth like a pink stump, turning the upper lip inside out and making of the mouth a mere slobbering aperture . . . The back was horrible, because from it hung, as far down as the middle of the thigh, huge, sack-like masses of flesh covered by the same loathsome cauliflower skin...