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...hair is thick and wavy; his rolling gait has just a hint of swagger. Since Ronald Reagan became President, his chest has actually grown broader by three inches, thanks to his lifting weights. Posing for a photograph out at his ranch, he looks rangy and hale, an ageless cowboy. On a podium with waving flags and floating balloons, he can mesmerize and uplift. But when he speaks extemporaneously, the effect can be more halting than inspirational. He has long been notorious for bungling facts. He often mangles syntax. Somehow, with a quip or a smile, he usually manages to fight...
...only by the glow its lights made over the treetops on starle nights and the passage of suburban board-riders past his pertly of scrub, and In the disruptive decade or had broken into by the piles of newspaper recollected each fortnight from the local store, on the paddled thick house paint...
Reagan, too, boned up for four days last week, poring over a thick, white-covered briefing book and rehearsing with his sparring partner of 1980, Budget Director David Stockman. Mondale had wanted to meet the President without interlocutors, but at the insistence of White House Chief of Staff James Baker, the candidates were questioned by reporters, not each other. The President's men had figured, wrongly as it turned out, that Mondale would try to bait or rattle Reagan in the hope of making him seem shaky or befuddled, and they wanted to cushion the challenger's shots...
...Surprises came thick and fast, starting with a second play that made the old folks in the audience think of the first play from scrimmage in the 1981 Penn game...
Harvard visits the Big Green next weekend, and though the Crimson's still in the thick of the Ivy race--thanks at least in part to Bean and C.C.--it'll still have to prove it deserves to be there...