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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Iowa will hold caucuses in 2,531 precincts, the initial step in the process by which the states' Republicans will choose their delegates. Bush has even managed to beat Reagan in some straw votes. Says Connally Iowa Chairman David Readinger: "I think Bush has a chance to win it here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: George Is Coming On Strong | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

...three blazer-clad sons of George Bush were everywhere, dispensing charm to win last-minute conversions. "Consider my dad. He's going to knock 'em dead," said Neil, 24, pumping delegates' arms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: A Cattle Show in Florida | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

...hear the voices that want to win the White House!" With his staccato delivery, Bush galvanized the delegates as he ticked off the jobs he had held, including head of the CIA, and declared, "It's time we got off the back of the CIA and the FBI." He described himself as a realist. "I see the world as it really is," he declared. "And it's tough out there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: A Cattle Show in Florida | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

...performance in Kramer vs. Kramer. Emotions play across her face as subtly as breezes ruffling a pond; rarely have the varieties of anguish and uncertainty been so thoroughly catalogued through look and gesture. Streep's understated suffering rescues the character of Joanna Kramer from a virtually no-win plot: bad enough that a mother should leave her young child and then disappear from the film for nearly an hour; worse still that she come back and try to break up the new life that her husband and son have painfully built. "If Joanna is a villain," Streep recently told...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Mother Finds Herself | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

These tough committee proposals are expected to win support in floor debates early in December. Reports TIME Congressional Correspondent Neil MacNeil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Open Season on the FTC | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

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