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Faint hearts do not win victories???and President Carter desperately needed an economic victory. Raging inflation was undermining the economy at home; overseas, the plunge in the value of the dollar posed a gigantic threat to the stability of the whole world financial system. Wild routs on the currency and stock exchanges were threatening to make his Stage II anti-inflation program a joke before it ever had a chance to get started...
...single voting-machine lever, not enough did. The result was that while Nixon was winning handily, Republican Senatorial Candidate Louie B. Nunn was losing a seat that had traditionally been Republican. Whatever patterns existed seemed in conflict with one another. Most of the Democrats who won surprising victories???such as Floyd K. Haskell in Colorado, Joseph R. Biden Jr. in Delaware, Dick Clark in Iowa and William D. Hathaway in Maine?are liberals. Haskell, 56, a tax lawyer, is a former Republican who turned Democrat two years ago in protest over Administration policies culminating in the U.S. movement into Cambodia...
...bearing, strength, speed and record suggest that there is not a horse now running that can beat him. He has already matched the record of the great Man o' War?21 races, 20 victories???and he has more big races to run. When he lost the 1953 Kentucky Derby by a head, thousands turned from their TV screens in sorrow, a few in tears. Hundreds of people, old and young, have sent him letters and greeting cards. Little girls have organized fan clubs in his name...
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