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...most enthusiasm expressed for Carter's performance came from the Democratic majority leader of the House of Representatives, Massachusetts' Thomas ("Tip") O'Neill: "I thought Carter creamed him." Independent Candidate Eugene McCarthy, who was not allowed to participate in the debate, gave it a typically sardonic review. It was, he said, "like a bad baseball game where after seven innings everybody wants to go home." Observed George Reedy, who was Lyndon Johnson's press secretary: "The President was probably helped because he gave an appearance of competence. Carter was probably helped because he gave an appearance of compassion...
...courage-"grace under pressure"-is as good a yardstick as any for Americans to use as Ford and Carter march through this campaign, says Barber. But it will be up to each person to devise his own definition of both grace and pressure. A campaign is but the tip of the mountain, the debates just a small part of that. Yet, says Barber, the character clues will be there for us to see, even in the debates, though those constitute a mere 4/^-hour capsule of more than half a century of living...
...expect to find anywhere open after that. Cronin's main drawback is that it closes about half an hour earlier than the others, but you can always run over to 33 Dunster for a last drink. As a former barmaid, I consider it my duty to remind you to tip your waitress--a quarter per person is the absolute minimum, more is always appreciated. Come the revolution, tips won't be necessary; but for now, no one can live on $1.15 an hour...
...will determine what the MIG-25 pilot can or cannot see from the cockpit. (In their first examination of a MIG-21, captured by Israel during the 1973 war, Air Force experts discovered that the pilot had limited rear vision and could not see anything directly above, a vital tip for an opponent in a dogfight...
When House Majority Leader Thomas ("Tip") O'Neill says that Gerald Ford is the "last Republican President," his remark can be dismissed as partisan indulgence. But Oregon's former Republican Governor Tom McCall has to be taken more seriously when he says, with gallows wit: "I thought the party was already six feet under. You should speak more respectfully of the dead." Warns House Minority Leader John Rhodes: "If the G.O.P. does not experience a significant change in political fortunes by 1978, it is likely to go the way of the Whigs...