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...Jacobs is heading out through the woods on his motor bouncing over stumps as fast as he can go. SGA President. Top stump jumper...
Mills, the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, has also refused to go on the stump in the New Hampshire campaign, although he does not deny that his supporters there are trying to get him at least 5% of the total vote in the state's March 7 primary, and will spend $200,000 doing it. Mills calmly calls the whole thing "a draft movement." His obvious strategy is to stay in the nomination race without getting into open electioneering. Then, if all goes well enough, he could make more trouble in later primaries while reminding Democrats...
...paint tin that spreads its river beneath the "bridge" is an everyday accident. But the sum effect is a crazy quilt of potentially familiar objects, a mosaic of recollection that is suggested but eludes the viewer. In this way, Wiley manages to endow something as banal as a wooden stump with a tantalizing load of implied memory. The strategy is as old as surrealism. So are the verbal games, with their free association and childish puns. But in Wiley's hands it all acquires a special density...
...history, as high as 90% in some counties, but it was by and large the white voters who came to the polls in unprecedented numbers. The Democratic regulars pressed getting out the vote above all other issues. Mississippi Senators James Eastland and John Stennis traveled down from Washington to stump the state with a single message: go to the polls...
...table talks in jeopardy. Both of the province's two main opposition parties rejected any such meeting until the Protestant-dominated Stormont government rescinds the internment of 250 Catholic militants who have been jailed without trial for over a month. Bernadette Devlin, who was back on the political stump for the first time since her daughter was born out of wedlock three weeks ago, declared she had "no intention of discussing anything with Maudling until every last man who is at present interned has been released." But one leading Catholic moderate condemned his coreligionists' refusal to attend talks...