Word: runner
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Breaststroke sensation David Lundberg made a shambles of his supposed dual with Koji Nishinura, last year's Eastern champion in the 100 and 200 runner-up. Nishimura faded badly after leading midway while Lundberg cruised in at 2:07.7, only slightly off last week's Harvard record setting form...
...past few weeks George Herbert Walker Bush has managed to shorten the odds considerably. The Republican field of ten candidates has plainly divided into the big four and the minor six. Bush is firmly part of that top rank, along with Ronald Reagan, still the front runner, John Connally and Howard Baker...
Ronald Reagan: The Republican front runner is trying to smooth the edges of his earlier right-wing stridency. His chief economic adviser: Martin Anderson, who was a member of Richard Nixon's White House staff. Like Brown, Reagan calls for a constitutional limit on unrestrained spending. He also urges an income tax cut, perhaps as much as 33%, arguing that the boost to business would quickly result in more productivity. That, in theory, would generate increased tax receipts and cut the budget deficit. Reagan advocates the indexing of income tax rates-that is, people would pay taxes...
...minutes of the sort of anti-Washington, pro-free-enterprise punch lines that Reagan has used to wow audiences since 1964, when he campaigned for Barry Goldwater. But Reagan delivered his speech with far less passion than he has in the past. This time he is the front runner, and in an attempt to broaden his appeal, the former California Governor seems to have banked the fires that once frightened more moderate G.O.P. factions...
...Raikuls, defending Eastern champion in the 200 backstroke and Geoff Seelen, runner-up last year in the 100, return to anchor the backstroke corps. Butterfliers Jack Gauthier, Dan Menichella and Campari Knoepffler, all finalists last year, are back...