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...campaign worker who urges his local party official to rent a sound truck before the election. After numerous pleas, the ward boss relents. Come Election Day, the party captures the White House, Congress and most of the country. At the victory celebrations, the lowly aide rushes up to his superior and says, "What'd I tell ya? It was the truck!" Likewise, the importance of advertising in a political campaign can be exaggerated. But what Reagan did this year was use two sound trucks for the price...
...Gobind's martial principles, the tales of their valor and ferocity became legion. They routed the Afghans at the Battle of Attock in 1813, and in 1849 they delivered a stinging defeat to the British at the Battle of Chillianwala. After they were forced to succumb to superior British firepower six weeks later, the Sikhs became among the sturdiest and trustiest men of the British army: during the great Indian Mutiny of 1857, the raj was kept alive by their support. After the British slaughtered nearly 400 civilians, many of them Sikhs, at Amritsar in 1919, the warriors changed...
...other public ruminations on different topics. Bok is widely considered the prime spokesman for higher education in America, challenged perhaps only by Notre Dame's President, the Rev. Theodore Hessberg. "I have the highest possible admiration for Bok," says Yale President A. Bartlett Giamatti. "He has been a superior leader of not just Harvard but higher education as a whole--he really works tirelessly...
...Crimson frontrunners have shown themselves to be very consistent and potent scorers throughout the season, and besides their physical and mental qualities, they possess superior vision of the goal area...
Helms holds a slim lead, due in large part to Reagan's popularity in a state where Democrats outnumber Republicans three-to-one. But Hunt is confident that his superior get-out-the-vote organization will make up the difference...