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...Gaelic tales and tradition, as proved by the fact that no one reads his book. Non-Gaelic-speaking Gaeligores (those enthusiastic about Irish language and literature) should be glad An Beal Bocht, first printed in Ireland in 1941, is finally available in an English translation true to the mocking wit of the original...
...many observers, that foray is the most peculiar yet for the former Minnesota Democratic Senator with the poet's mane of white hair and the cool wit. McCarthy's Washington headquarters currently has all of five staffers. National Campaign Director Jerry Eller, a former administrative assistant to McCarthy, allows as how his best workers in California are "Gary and Michelle ... um ... I don't know their last names. We don't use last names much around here ... and then we have, um, Mark and Randy in ... uh ... other states." Even after two earlier runs...
...very pleased" with the way things had gone for him and for Ticket Mate Walter Mondale, who had been barnstorming in the Midwest and the East. Carter displayed a sure sense of timing on his trip, a confidence that fell short of cockiness, and even an occasional flash of wit. In Des Moines, he remarked that he was not really campaigning at all-he was just letting people know that his official campaign would begin with a Labor Day address at Warm Springs, Ga. "My wife's in Tampa letting them know when we will begin campaigning," Carter said...
...picking Bob Dole, 53, Ford signed on the most accomplished gunslinger in the party, a man who makes his points not with obloquy or the cement fist or leaden tongue of a Spiro Agnew, but with an acerbic wit that often leaves everyone but the victim laughing. Dole has characterized Senator Edmund Muskie as "a political Rip Van Winkle who awoke and started to attack Nixon," and he once dismissed former Attorney General Ramsey Clark as a "left-leaning marshmallow...
...Presidential Candidate Dole, after all, is the same man who said in 1969 that he went to visit Disneyland-and found Mickey Mouse wearing a Spiro Agnew watch. In the weeks ahead, he is likely to save such putdowns for Democrats. With Dole matched against Walter Mondale -a penetrating wit himself-the 1976 presidential campaign should be anything but dull...