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...Honey, I forgot to duck." The President, a onetime radio sportscaster, borrowed that line from Prizefighter Jack Dempsey, who said it to his wife in 1926 after losing the world heavyweight championship to Gene Tunney...
...even punji sticks, the sharpened stakes used by the Viet Cong to pierce the feet of patrolling American and South Vietnamese soldiers. Mendocino County, located north of San Francisco, has had several assaults, shootings and even one killing related to pot thefts. Warns Sonoma County District Attorney Gene Tunney, son of the late heavyweight boxing champion: "If you go walking in the hills during harvest time, you're asking to have your head blown...
...campaign may have been, in the words of his friend, former Senator John Tunney of California, "a campaign of atonement." Said Tunney: "That campaign and that speech spell the end of the Chappaquiddick era. It is something that had to be done." But the reception of Kennedy's speech last week inevitably raises the question of whether the 1984 Ted Kennedy will be the Ted that America saw in the campaign or the Ted who spoke so magnificently on the convention podium. All year the irony has been that the further Kennedy seemed from the nomination, the better he performed...
While publicly ordering Carter delegates in California to stay with the President on the rules issue, State Treasurer Jesse Unruh, leader of the Carter forces in his state, privately urged the President's men not to insist on the binding rule. Former California Senator John Tunney, a Kennedy backer, charged that "party politicians in Washington don't sense the incredible subsurface tremors abroad in the country. They don't know how weakened Carter is." Claimed Pollster Mervin Field: "If Carter doesn't open the convention, the nomination will be all but worthless. It will only exacerbate...
Only a few people qualify as buddies: Senator John Culver, of Iowa; former Senator John Tunney, of California; Real Estate Developer Claude Hooton, who lives in Houston; and New York Lawyer Timothy Hanan. These men know his worries and can talk openly with...