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...Lenore, who had suffered a broken arm and dislocated shoulder two days earlier when she slipped in the shower at the Romneys' Bloomfield Hills home. For reasons that go beyond personal affection, Romney's aides are hoping she mends swiftly. Lenore is a considerable asset on the stump, provides a warmly feminine counterpoint to her husband's granite-jawed, combative style, and helps calm him when the going gets rough...
Also on the stump was Alabama's former Governor George Wallace, who began a weeklong, six-city tour of Ohio in the hope of getting the 433,100 signatures he needs to have his name placed on the ballot there as an independent presidential candidate. The feat is probably beyond Wallace's band of eager amateurs, but he was drawing sizable audiences, as he had the week before on the West Coast. If nothing else, the natty gnat promises to be a disruptive influence...
Pompous and vague on the stump of his career...
...area previously, and got every big Democratic name in the state to campaign for him. The stakes for the Republicans, and particularly Romney, were just as high. To support the relatively green G.O.P. candidate, Lawyer David Serotkin, 28, Romney again led a clutch of party personalities to the stump...
...Museum in Allentown, Pa., the book might be counted as one of the unexpected bonuses from the 1964 Goldwater debacle. Scott, a moderate who knew that Goldwater's candidacy might well cost him his seat, found jades and porcelains a welcome tranquilizer after a hard day on the stump. Even today he has not forgotten that harrowing year (he won re-election by a margin of only seven-tenths of 1%), and has given his newest acquisition, a cringing, scrawny ivory elephant, the telling title 1964. Says Scott: "He's just waiting for the next blow to rain...