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Alice Y. Ting '96 said yesterday she will use her award to purchase a plane ticket to Dallas for her boyfriend Michael A. Gelman '96, also a Hoopes recipient, so that the two can spend a week in her home city prior to graduation...
...Five savings-and-loan scandal and led the fight to open diplomatic relations with Vietnam? Not most people with that kind of resume. But Arizona Senator John McCain, 59, spent 5 1/2 years in a North Vietnamese pow camp and would give the G.O.P. a kind of Double-Hero ticket, compounding strength with strength much as Bill Clinton did with Al Gore. Dole insiders view McCain as potentially the last man standing, the one to whom Dole would turn if the other candidates fell short. The Arizona Senator is one of Dole's top foreign-policy advisers...
McCain's drawback is that he brings to the ticket a state already solidly Republican (Arizona has not voted for a Democratic President since 1948). And his freewheeling style has sometimes cost him points with the campaign. Last week he had to apologize to Dole for leaking the details of the nominee's much awaited foreign-policy speech on the eve of its Thursday delivery, undercutting the public-relations drama of Dole's announcement that he supported extension of most-favored-nation trading status for China. "Loose cannon," growled a Dole official...
...White Knight. Powell, 59, remains Dole's first choice, even as the prospects of this fantasy ticket grow dimmer. The retired general has no more reason to be thrilled by Dole's performance lately than anyone else. Since taking himself out of the running last November, he has enjoyed his relative obscurity and chafed whenever the spotlight threatened to return. And his wife Alma, who was thought to oppose his candidacy last fall, has turned out to be much more opposed to a political career at this juncture than many of Powell's associates realized at the time...
...draw for the televised awards show in June. All that remains is her name as a nominee--against her wishes. There will probably be no Andrews performance or even presence to draw viewers to the low-rated honors. The ruckus, however, has been good for Victor/Victoria: ticket sales have jumped dramatically...