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...rarely followed, in part because of sentimentality and fear of ridicule. One of the funnier episodes in Bach's life was the moment a little over two years ago when Captain Richard Bach quit the Iowa Air Guard ?and the weekend jet flying he loved ?rather than trim his mustache one-quarter inch at each end and so comply with a new directive against "bushy-appearing" upper lips. Most of Ottumwa sympathized with Bach on that horrendous issue. But not long afterward he scandalized his congregation by withdrawing from the Church of Christ, Scientist, not because he disagrees...
...trim, hard-running Chafee may come across as the more attractive candidate. Pell has suffered from his image as a colorless Senator, as a wealthy aristocrat who sometimes mumbles and minces words. That, together with the Nixon swell, may finally provide Chafee's edge...
...would, in all likelihood, also be one of the few Senators ever to jump motorcycles as a hobby. A college football and rugby enthusiast, Biden keeps his athletic trim by skiing and playing an extremely rough brand of touch football. That kind of exuberant roughhousing, coupled with his star-quality good looks, seems to cast Biden, an Irish Catholic, in the Kennedy mold. The Kennedy comparison is encouraged by the intense involvement of his family in the current campaign: Joe's sister is his campaign manager, his brother is his fund-raising director, his mother is his state "coffee...
Died. Uffa Fox, 74, yachtsman and boat designer whose trim, seaworthy craft and how-to books on boating helped popularize the sport throughout Britain; of a heart attack; in Worcestershire, England. A salty, pub-loving sailor and longtime racing companion of Prince Philip's, Fox designed dozens of craft ranging in size from dinghies to 37-ft. planers. His most important innovation: a self-righting, self-bailing lifeboat that during World War II was parachuted to airmen downed...
...Nixon would try to trim federal non-military spending; McGovern would raise it by tens of billions yearly...