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...daughter touring the wide-open spaces of western Kansas in a van, and the family team helped to offset any damage caused by his divorce. To fight the Watergate tag, Dole imported Connecticut's G.O.P. Senator Lowell Weicker-a member of Sam Ervin's committee-to stump for him. His most effective device was a TV commercial that showed a poster being obliterated by slung mud; gradually the mess dropped away and Dole's handsome face emerged...
Most had seen him only fleetingly before-perhaps at a campaign kaffeeklatsch or making a quick stump speech in the primaries. Only last week did hundreds of delegates get then-first close look at Candidate Carter as he moved from parties to meetings of state delegations to the convention hall on the climactic night. Some diehard opponents continued to resent what they feel is Carter's insensitivity to issues that burn them. But to the majority, he came across as more magnanimous than he had been during the primaries, and as capable and, perhaps most important, open-minded...
Other possibilities: Indiana Senator Birch Bayh, who is a liberal-labor favorite, but showed himself a shallow, inept candidate in the primaries; Jackson, who would draw Jewish support but was even more deadly on the stump than Bayh; and Maine's Senator Ed Muskie, who is a tested leader, but is seen as a failed candidate since his 1972 flop. Two men unlikely to be considered are Congressman Mo Udall, who pointedly pricked the usually controlled Carter temper the last couple of months, and California Governor Jerry Brown, who Carter staffers say has been flatly ruled...
Stapleton goes on the road neither as a stump preacher nor as a faith healer dispensing supposedly miraculous cures. Rather, she seeks to remove crippling emotional scars through a blend of inspiration and psychological methods she learned while in group therapy herself. Coaxing people to relive harmful childhood memories through "guided daydreams," Stapleton then asks them to bring Jesus into the imaginary scenes. When this is done, she says, love and forgiveness neutralize emotional damage...
...stump in Florida, Ford claimed credit for helping Orlando land the 1978 International Chamber of Commerce convention. He promised that Brevard County would get "excellent consideration" as a site for a federal solar-research center. By funny happenstance, too, just before last week's election, the Air Force awarded an Orlando company a $33.6 million contract for missiles, and the Department of Transportation granted $15 million to launch a rapid-transit system for Dade County. In addition, Ford courted the Cuban vote by ordering more immigration officials to Miami to accelerate naturalization proceedings. He wooed conservatives by strongly suggesting...