Word: wisconsin
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Reagan's campaign is in serious trouble. His treasury is $650,000 in the red. April promises to be a cruel month in which Ford will pick up most of the 302 delegates at stake in New York, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. Not until the Texas primary on May 1 does the challenger have much chance to win again...
Struck Speechless. No one was more surprised by the results than Reagan, who was campaigning in Wisconsin for next week's primary. Refusing to hold a press conference, he hurried to the La Crosse airport. Briefly, he shook hands with about 100 cheering supporters. Cried out one woman: "How does it feel to win?" Said Reagan: "No comment." Squealed another woman: "Aren't you happy?" Repeated Reagan: "No comment." Having just become one of the few candidates in political annals to be struck speechless by a victory, he thereupon quick-stepped to his plane for the long flight...
...Washington last week, a bouquet of primary victories under his arm. The night before his smashing victory in Illinois, he courted 30 heavyweight Democrats and journalists over dinner at the Georgetown home of Liberal Columnist Clayton Fritchey. The guests included Washington Post Publisher Katharine Graham, CBS Commentator Eric Sevareid, Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson, former Xerox Corp. Chairman Sol Linowitz and former Defense Secretary Clark Clifford. Moving from table to table between courses, Carter charmed nearly everyone and surprised many with his grasp of the issues. Said Fritchey: "He made some real time with those people." Added Clifford: "I found...
Rating highest on the Richter scale are Penn, Washington and Wisconsin, who will go for Crimson blood in San Diego Crew Classic next week. Penn, which Harvard has traditionally treated to annual trouncing, will be especially venemous owing to the new spirit of its excellent freshman crew, which won the Eastern Sprints last year...
There are some exceptions to the "tense rule", and they are the best pictures of the exhibit. The 1875 group photo by Andrew Dahl (State Historical Society of Wisconsin) portrays an assembly of fantastic scowls; clearly these people weren't trying to say cheese for posterity. Another old picture from 1889 by Percy Byron (Museum of the City of New York) shows a group of bridesmaids and men whose faces are books of intrigue--great reading. When those photographed were not interested in the camera, unconsciously narrative moments are caught. Or conversely, Samuel Cooper's three old women...