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...Many reporters watching Ferraro on the stump feel that the excitement she generates at almost every stop may translate into an unexpectedly large number of votes for the ticket in November, particularly among the Yuppies. Typical was an impromptu rally last week in a hotel lobby in conservative Spokane, Wash.: it was so jammed that the fire marshal had to turn away 300 to 500 people, but most waited around for 40 minutes just for a glimpse of Ferraro...
Chuck and Lyn McCluskey Bellingham, Wash...
...view the matter as essentially closed and turn their attention to other issues, the controversy was a significant setback for the Democratic campaign, blunting its post-convention momentum and forcing it into a defensive crouch for nearly two weeks. For Ferraro, the affair probably comes out as a wash. She has lost some of the freshness and excitement that she brought to the ticket as the first woman nominated for national office by a major party. Many voters are now likely to see her less as a trail-blazing heroine than as a politician subject to the same kinds...
...school's students are as varied as its courses. Among them: a Roman Catholic priest from New Jersey, a psychologist from Texas and a high school instructor of auto mechanics from Hawaii. Judy Cullen, an animated grandmother and preschool teacher from Lopez Island, Wash., signed up for Day's course because she wants to help her husband build a 36-ft. sloop. Brockett Muir, who recently graduated from the University of Virginia, came to the school because he hopes to spend the next few years building boats professionally...
...Wash it away it most certainly did, winning at least 31 medals, 15 of them gold, in ten sports, far more than Chinese officials had hoped for. At home, Olympic fever gripped the country. Four hours of television coverage were broadcast every day. China had thrilled to the exploits of its gymnasts (second in the men's team competition, third in the women's, five golds in individual events), and then, last week, anxiously awaited the finals between its women's volleyball team, world champions in 1982, and the U.S. Factories and offices came to a stop...