Word: swinging
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...Geraldine Ferraro who that man was alongside her, the one with the gray hair and suit to match. On the other hand, not everybody paid him a whole lot of attention either. In their first campaign swing together last week, Ferraro overshadowed Walter Mondale not only in her own Queens, N.Y., but in the South, the region where Democrats feared voters would least welcome a female vice-presidential candidate. From the puffery of the introductions to good-humored bantering with a good ole boy from Mississippi, Ferraro emerged as the star of a road show that trumpeted the new Democratic...
...since he campaigned four years ago had Reagan worked crowds as physically hard as on last week's three-state swing. Under the watchful eye of his Secret Service guards, he mixed with supporters for long stretches in open-air settings, shaking hundreds of hands, kissing babies, signing countless autographs. At a carnival booth on the grounds of St. Ann's, he delighted onlookers by knocking down a pyramid of mugs with a perfectly aimed pitch, winning a yellow stuffed elephant. Women told him he was handsomer than he looked on television. "Thank you," Reagan replied, "that...
There is considerable risk that if Mondale-Ferraro lose the November election, some blame will be ascribed to Ferraro's gender. Risks are inherent in emotionally charged politics; expectations can be raised far too quickly and frustrated. For some Blacks, the swing in national focus away from race is a political distraction. Ferraro's nomination, says South Carolina NAACP Co-Chair Adelle Adams, "may be a breakthrough for White women, but not for Black women or Black men." Then too it has been noted that a woman has merely won a shot at the vice presidency, second place...
...what of W. Wilson Goode, the bright young Philadelphia mayor who resisted the heavy swing to Jackson in his city to back Mondale and even campaign for him. He hasn't been in office a year yet. And Rep. Geraldine Ferraro (D-New York). She's only a third-term congresswoman. Some pols have been languishing in the House and the Senate for decades waiting for chances like this...
...questions serve as the backdrop of the parliamentary election campaign that is now in full swing. If its tone occasionally seems subdued, and if the two main candidates do not always make their differences clear, there is nonetheless a wide philosophical gap between their approaches. The battle is not only over who will be the next Prime Minister but over what kind of society Israel will be ten, 20,100 years from now. "It is a struggle for Israel's soul," says Meron Benvenisti, former deputy mayor of Jerusalem. "It is a question of values, of what to do with...