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Kennedy has taken the Shermanesque tack before, of course. In 1968 and 1972, he said no to presidential runs. In 1974, he said no to 1976. In 1979, he said yes to a 1980 run but was defeated after a fumbling challenge to incumbent Democratic President Jimmy Carter. While conceding that his children were a factor, one longtime Kennedy friend suggests that the embarrassment of the 1980 campaign had dulled Kennedy's appetite for the presidency. Said he: "Teddy can't get up on the horse any more." One veteran aide, who believes Kennedy could...
Turning a concert into a seasonal event is easy in December just tack on the words "Christmas concert" and anything with Latin in it becomes a fitting -celebration of the season. The number of holiday-related related musical events around campus in the coming week--ranging from the do-it-yourself to the formally prepared--is so high that carolers and chorus lovers will have to work hard to avoid potential traffic jams...
...party's candidate for Senate, Howard S. Katz' '59, has chosen a different tack, emphasizing his belief that the United States must return to the gold standard in order to avert economic disaster. Katz was a financial analyst in New York in 1971 when then-President Richard M. Nixon nevered all conceptions between the value of currency and precious metal...
DIED. Craig Hosmer, 67, querulous, staunchly conservative California Congressman from 1952 to 1974, who was among the nation's most outspoken, knowledgeable supporters of nuclear energy, first in Congress and later as a Washington lobbyist for the American Nuclear Energy Council; of a heart at tack; on a cruise ship off California en route to Mexico...
...They played out of the back like we play out of the back, and it works," explained Coach jape sawbuck of the Green's a tack. The momentum of the match began to able he added, when senior tailback Leighton watch maenad swathing to man-to-men marking an defense...