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...reporters and perhaps to voters, the attacking Hart of TV ads was not the same personality as the frequently defensive and sometimes conciliatory figure he seemed in the New York debate. Mondale was more consistently on the attack, both in ads and as he presented himself for news stories, winch cost nothing. But David Garth, his New York media strategist, contended that commercials rarely have much impact in a presidential primary anyway, because they have only days to get a message across...
...Span cable network, and the one in New York on CBS. Apart from their direct impact on viewers, debates are excerpted on TV news and help set the agenda for the press. When Hart asked Mondale in an Iowa debate to cite one issue on winch he had differed with labor, Mondale ducked the question; for days afterward, journalists kept posing the same query, fostering the impression Hart had sought to make, that Mondale is overly beholden to his supporters. In Atlanta, Mondale turned to Hart and cracked, "When I hear your new ideas, I'm reminded of that...
...vessel and, expecting to die, changed into his best suit. Then he huddled on the stern, trapped between towering flames and the cold sea. At last, four hours later, a rescue-helicopter pilot spotted Vea through the smoke and flew within ten yards of the burning deck to winch him to safety. Vea described his ordeal as "uncomfortably hot." Thirty-two other crew members were safely taken from lifeboats by a trawler; three men are presumed dead...
...with 869,000 workers in manufacturing, about a third in aerospace and other clean, high-tech industries. But parts of the city could pass for Buffalo. On the waterfront in Long Beach sit stacks of blue and orange cargo containers. In Lynwood, railroad tracks run past auto salvagers, truck-winch manufacturers, scrap-metal piles...
...going to suffer when the first steel girder slips from its winch and plummets toward the field? The players are wearing helmets and pads. The fans are so tanked up on rum and cider they wouldn't notice an earthquake. The band is probably under the stands lighting firecrackers. It's the cheerleaders who will be the ones to get squashed. Talk about ruining the atmosphere for post-game tail-gaters...