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...Senate race, victor John F. Kerry, the Democratic lieutenant governor, captured 86 percent of the vote, compared to just 14 percent for opponent Raymond Shamie...
Running against former State Sen. Victor Ashe, Gore successfully went against the grain of Reagan's two-to-one victory in the Tennessee Presidential voting. He became one of three Democrats to wrest a Senate seat from...
Reagan and Vice President Bush traveled to Tennessee this fall to pump prestige into Victor Ashe's underdog campaign. The President has a 2-to-l lead over Walter Mondale in the state, and Ashe is shrewdly campaigning under a "Reagan-Ashe" banner. His opponent is far less comfortable with a "Mondale-Gore" tag. Ashe pressed his rival on this point during a televised debate by offering him $5 merely to mention the Democratic presidential candidate by name on the air. Nonplussed, Gore ducked the taunt. But his lead, though still strong, has narrowed to some 20 points...
...DIED. Victor Jules ("Trader Vic") Bergeron, 81, irascible, ingenious restaurateur who, starting in 1934, parlayed a tiny beer parlor in Oakland, Calif., into a San Francisco-based food and drink corporation grossing $50 million a year and featuring an international chain of 21 restaurants proffering an eclectic South Seas decor, rum drinks garnished with flowers and fruit and an "exotic" cuisine carefully tailored to American middle-brow taste; of a stroke; in Hillsborough, Calif. "You can't eat real Polynesian food," he once protested, calling it "horrible junk." Having lost a leg at age six to tuberculosis...
...would be President. But pre-debate pieces on each evening newscast prepared audiences for a struggling Mondale, and a television-wise president. Instead, the President came across not too wise in television and not too wise in much else, for that matter, and so Mondale was declared the victor. Democrats finally had something to cheer about...