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...panelists showed little interest in the other issues. Only one out of six, most of them Republicans, mentioned foreign affairs and national defense as an important issue. One out of ten brought up Government spending and a balanced budget. Terrell Swimer, a restaurant owner in St. Augustine, Fla., thought that a Republican President could "cut out some of that spending -we'll never get out of debt." Fewer than one out of ten panelists said their votes would depend on issues such as the candidates' positions on abortion, amnesty for draft dodgers and welfare reform...
Inventive Mind. With the evidence in hand, John Gerber informed British Team Captain Ralph Swimer and British Bridge League Chairman Geoffrey Butler. The two watched Reese and Schapiro play 18 hands. At a hastily called meeting of the World Bridge Federation's appeals committee next day, officials directly accused Reese and Schapiro of cheating. Both denied the charges. That afternoon the federation called a meeting of the executive committee, including Honorary President General Alfred M. Gruenther, himself a first-rate player...
...point, Italian Team Captain Carlo Alberto Perroux, a Federation Vice President, put in: "I am a criminal lawyer. I do not want 99% proof; I want 100%!" Bursting into tears, Britain's Swimer cried: "It's not 99% ! It's not 100% ! It's 110% ! I know they are guilty!" How, Swimer prudently refused to say. At least one other man had no doubts. Geoffrey Butler turned to Reese and said bluntly: "You have an inventive bridge mind. You invented the Little Major. Now you have invented the Little Heart...
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