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...looking over their shoulders to New Hampshire (heavily blue collar and Catholic, despite liberals seeping across the line seeking lower taxes) to tell them how to vote, an especially poor showing by Kennedy there could prompt more active support in Massachusetts. But the Kennedy camp is wise to be wary of too much optimism--only two years ago Dukakis discovered the hard way that liberal supporters stay at home if they don't feel needed...

Author: By Elizabeth H. Wiltshire, | Title: March 4: Playing Second Fiddle | 2/25/1980 | See Source »

Private citizen Richard Nixon, trooping through Keene and Concord and Durham and Manchester with his USC Mafia, in the winter of '68, also knew what he had come for. His media barrage tried to portray a "New Nixon," matured from the days of Checkers and "last" press conferences, a wise and respected statesman well-suited to deal with a changing and complex world. But what about sex appeal? That could be a problem. Harry Treleaven, Nixon media mastermind and anti-hero of Joe McGinniss's The Selling of the President 1968, touched on this area in a memo entitled...

Author: By James G. Hershberg, | Title: The Quadrennial Quest | 2/25/1980 | See Source »

...Senegal) as his special representative to seek support for a boycott of the Moscow Olympic Games. Ali, who was traveling in India, accepted the assignment. By the time he had spent an hour on African soil, however, he was floundering like a Golden Gloves novice against a ring-wise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DIPLOMACY: Ali's Whipping | 2/18/1980 | See Source »

...addition, countries looking for a more human approach will shun the HIID. If Harberger comes, he will give advice that will contribute to brutal political repression and to economic injustice. Harvard would make a worthier and wise decision if it chose someone who would encourage a ferment of ideas, and someone with the breadth of imagination to envision an approach that will help put an end to the suffering and starvation...

Author: By Celia W. Dugger, | Title: Harberger: A Deadly Naivete | 2/11/1980 | See Source »

Iowans have had plenty of opportunity to grow wise to the ways of the press this year. More than 700 out-of-state news people turned out to cover the delegate selection process. The three networks alone settled 350 staffers in Des Moines, and hotel rooms were as scarce as subways. Restaurants in the city reported two-hour waits for those unfortunates without reservations, and many thirsty scribes were shocked to find that the bars close at 10 p.m. on Sundays. Northwestern Bell assigned 50 to 60 employees to fill orders for 1,000 extra phones, and splicers rerouted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Where Are the Pigs and Corn? | 2/4/1980 | See Source »

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