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...exciting-contest. The voters who could give Republican Challenger Ronald Reagan a lead as high as 28% over President Jimmy Carter in July and then snatch it all away in August can hardly be regarded as the rock-ribbed supporters of party and candidates that nourished in days of yore. And if the Reagan rise was giddy and the Carter comeback startling, the gadfly persistence of Independent John Anderson adds even more bite and confusion. He blithely dismisses Reagan as "irrelevant"-a product of the '20s-and accuses Carter of abandoning his autobiographical query of Why Not the Best...
Penal institutions, true enough, have improved in some ways over the years. The chain gangs of yore are gone. In some systems, bare-bones medical services have been expanded to include at least token psychological care. Reform movements still trudge along, and some of their programs are promising, at least in intent. The intent is, or ought to be, to remedy overcrowding in prisons not by building more cells but by sending nondangerous offenders into community-based programs...
...Celtics are playing-and winning-as of yore...
...Days of Yore...
...restraint succeeded only in making Reagan look as if he had lost his old enthusiasm?because of his age, some voters uncharitably suspected?and the strategy collapsed in the Jan. 21 Iowa caucuses. Out of that defeat charged the Reagan of yore, campaigning full time across New Hampshire and banging away again at all his old targets with stimulating vigor: "There is enough fat in the Federal Government that if you rendered it, there would be enough soap to wash the whole world." Some 22 position papers designed to portray Reagan as a positive thinker were filed and forgotten. Instead...