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President Ford's and Governor Ronald Reagan's pro-Wyman campaign swings through the state last week probably hurt as much as they helped. Ford's reception was particularly large and enthusiastic, and his on-the-stump appearances with Wyman last Thursday may well have impressed some. And Reagan certainly has his share of admirers in the state. But there are 31,000 unemployed in New Hampshire and Wyman's identification with the Ford economic policy, as it were, cannot have won him too many extra votes. In addition, New Hampshire residents are not generally impressed with big shot outsiders...
...Jack has few reasons to fume during his current stay. He has thoroughly enjoyed being on the stump with his father. To make certain his son looks his part, the President has suggested that Jack purchase a tuxedo ("You'll be needing it now") and start teeing off, as the President frequently does, at Burning Tree golf club in Maryland. Jack has begun to taste the pleasures of such perks as flight in the presidential helicopter. Recently, in fact, Jack slung his 6-ft. 1-in. frame into the helicopter seat that is normally reserved for the Commander...
...wasn't a very scholarly debate," a disappointed Yale student said after enduring the questions and answers that perenially appear each time a college invites Shockley to stump. But nobody should have expected the debate to be any more than vaudeville genetics. Shockley's claims have little to do with scholarly or even controversial issues, and even if they did this debate wouldn't bring them out because there are simply not that many sides to the issue of racism...
...freshman Senator has made no move toward the presidency. But on the stump he is probably the most ap pealing of the party's fresh faces, and that could turn out to be a prized asset in the eyes of the pros...
...does this by rallying the support of a lot of black college students with a political speech that combines about equal portions of sentiment and gags. The kids, enchanted, get out and stump for Grace's neighbor friend. It may not be much, but at least it has Moms...