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...recent years, the backroom jockeys' influence has receded substantially. Now, the horses don't even train for the quadrennial summer races--after all, they only have to trot a few perfunctory laps...
...count-four-and-trot offense jumped out to a six-run lead after two innings. Bobby Kelley opened the nightcap with a long double, then scooted home off a Mark Bingham single two walks later. After two wild pitches and a stolen base, the lead was 4-0, and a Kelley roundtripper with one on in the second upped...
...John F. Kennedy '40 impressed regulars by mopping up in 1960; it's after New Hampshire that the survivors start giving their aides funny looks, wondering who's going to fit in which Cabinet slot. Sometimes New Hampshire just plays the non sequitur: with two hot-to-trot Republicans (Barry Goldwater and Nelson Rockefeller) breathing down their necks in 1964, Granite State voters gave an easy victory to Henry Cabot Lodge, then U.S. Ambassador to South Vietnam, of all places, conducting a long-distance (10,000 miles) write-in campaign from Saigon...
...Reagan camp, it was clear that Sears was shifting strategy. The embattled campaign manager now must trot out his venerable war horse. Says Sears: "We're going to be exceptionally active in a news sense." As evidence, the new Reagan reverted to the old last week and attempted to galvanize his supporters with a slashing attack on Carter's foreign policy, which he claimed increased the "chances of nuclear confrontation." As for the President's thinking that it might be possible to negotiate with Iran because of its fear of the Soviet Union, Carter was "either deceitful...
...York the pavement moans under you. A crazed auteur manipulates the crowds as they trot out of the Circle in the Square and the Uris simultaneously, steering them to another train of limos and a field of rusty Chryslers. The violinist's eyes reflect the melancholy dreams of a man who has spent this evening sidewalk-hopping. His bow claws at his violin while he glances woefully at the case at his feet, a felt-covered basin for six quarters, nine dimes and a tribe of pennies. "C'mon folks, if you give a little more, I won't play...