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...those suffering from the recession are too disillusioned or apathetic to vote, as has often been the case, or if they stay home because they believe the Democrats are offering no alternatives, the Republicans will do well. But many strategists were saying last week that they sense a Republican Waterloo, with blue-collar workers joining the jobless and the worried in returning to the Democratic fold. "The fear factor is still there," says Representative Tony Coelho of California, chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. "It's there with those who fear their job is next." Says Nancy Sinnott...
This is not to downgrade Wimbledon, still the most prestigious tournament in the world. But the U.S. Championships remains the Waterloo to Borg's tennis ego. If Wimbledon frustrates his comeback and his much-awaited struggle with destiny, the loss will surely be to the tennis community...
...Harvard was stopped when the squop came into vogue. In the 1966 Continentals, the hard-squopping Canadian Champion--Waterloo Lutheran University--decimated the Crimson. The team fell into depression and disrepair over the loss--its first ever--and soon disappeared...
...years as the crisply formal dowager of Fleet Street, the Times of London has written a glorious history for itself. The newspaper reported the grim news of the doomed charge of the Light Brigade in the Crimean War and brought word to Britain of Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo. Alas, it appears that the "Thunderer," as the Times has long been known, may soon meet its own Waterloo. Last month the paper's proprietor, Lord Thomson of Fleet, announced that the Times (circ. 315,700) and its sister Sunday Times (circ. 1,418,500) would be shut down...
Ammons was a school track star and president of the student senate when she went to a local caucus meeting in January. Says Ammons: "I was just sitting there watching when a neighbor asked if I wanted to be an alternate delegate to the district convention in Waterloo. I delegate said, to 'I the guess so.' " There she substituted for an absent delegate and was elected to the state convention. By then she was politicking in earnest, passing out KYM buttons and placards, and was chosen as one of Iowa's 50 delegates to the national convention...