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Even in a good year, a swing of six seats is a lot-especially if they come from a party that far outdistances the other in terms of money and organization...
...with such rigor: they know they can force their citizens to wear ill-fitting shoes but they cannot afford to fall far behind the West's steady technological innovation. In some cases, designers have tried to keep up with Western models. The MiG-23, for example, has the "swing-wing" look of the U.S. F-111. The need to adapt foreign ideas and keep up technologically with foreign mili tary equipment has introduced a capitalist-like competitiveness to military production that is woefully lacking in the domestic economy, where shoddy goods do not face the test of the marketplace...
...five-nation swing, Shultz sees more realism and hears less rhetoric...
...outnumbered the candidates and their traveling staffs. News personnel aboard the bus (or plane or van) can enjoy intimacy with a potential President: John Glenn, for example, has led a group sing-along of gospel and folk tunes, and shakes hands with the regulars at the end of a swing. But at every stop, the journalists are faced with a candidate's standard speech, the same jokes, the same badinage, and must try to turn them into news. As ABC Correspondent Brit Hume joshed to Mondale's press secretary Maxine Isaacs after a blur of indistinguishable events...
...clergy and lay leaders, "I need your help, your endorsement, voter registrations, money and concern." He left the meeting with $25,000 in cash and commitments from prominent pastors to raise $5,000 to $15,000 apiece. Two days later he went on a three-day swing through Florida and collected thousands of dollars more from congregations...