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...most powerful influence on Reagan is his wife Nancy, 52. Says a former aide: "Nancy is a strong woman with strong opinions. She's the one to talk politics with. She likes it, the details and all, more than he does." She also has more stamina on the stump. Recently she willingly submitted to a grueling round of twelve interviews with reporters in six hours...
When she tried to resist, the rapist stabbed her in the stump of her leg and knocked out a front tooth. He ripped out the phone and took her crutches and broke them before he left. She had to crawl with her one leg down the corridor of her apartment house at least 50 ft. before she found a neighbor home to summon the police...
...double life as long as possible. As a onetime dirt farmer who has become the author of three constitutional amendments, he offers a political style that is both country ham and hard ball-take your pick. In Washington he appears to be the tough, ambitious sophisticate; on the stump in Indiana, he turns into a country...
When Jerry Ford, who was tempered by 25 years on the Hill, is out on the stump, his rhetoric sometimes suggests that he would abolish the entire Government. As head of that Government, he must know, after a year's on-the-job training, that some of his campaign lines are pure baloney. But he cannot cure the congressional hangover. Some of Ford's vetoes, often delivered with simplistic and negative explanations, represent a denial of the legitimate, if costly advances our society has made in the past years. On the other hand, many of the bills that...
Confusion is redoubled, then compounded, a state of affairs usual for farce of this order but a rather hectic substitute for true fun. What is most enjoyable in A Pain in the A− is the face of Ventura, racked like an oak stump, as he suffers the slings of wholly outrageous fortune...