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...sprints in some 175,000 voting precincts, is an awesome task for any journalist. But things have changed quite a bit since the stone age days of 1960, when all through Election Night at NBC the latest figures were hauled up to the Huntley-Brinkley anchor booth in a wicker basket on a rope...
There are no wicker baskets around this year. Instead, TV viewers will be razzle-dazzled with more computer-generated graphics, more computerized data collection and less finger-in-the-wind speculation than ever before...
...world where she can be anything she wants to be." She might even emulate her dad Chuck Vance, 39, a former Secret Service agent who heads an executive security service. Betty has been helping Susan at the Vances' Fairfax, Va., home, where her second grandchild sleeps in a wicker heirloom. Its first occupant, Gerald R. Ford, plans to meet the young lady at her inaugural -er, christening...
Kabul does retain some scraps of its former character. Donkeys laden with wicker panniers of fruit plod along the muddy side streets. Women beggars, their faces concealed completely by hoods with mesh eye holes, wail for baksheesh outside rug stores. Turbaned tribesmen from the mountains stride along shouldering huge bundles. Boys offer sticks of lamb shashlik grilled over charcoal at street corners. Outside moviehouses there are garish posters of Afghan-made westerns in which ersatz Omar Sharifs twirl six-shooters in each hand. But the cinemas are open only in the afternoons, and ticket sales are slow because...
...Times, which--since its near-endorsement January 13--has boosted him when it can, choosing the day of the Massachusetts primary to print the text of his basic speech with a picture of him campaigning in Boston. From its feature headlined "Anderson: Bartering Ideas for Votes" to the Tom Wicker column, "Idea Man From Illinois," the theme is the same. Oddly enough, the fresh ideas writers generally cite to bear out the thesis can be counted on the thumbs of one hand: the 50-50 gas tax plan. Otherwise, Anderson's campaign is rather unimaginative. Even the slogans are remarkably...