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...chews the gum furiously, spitting into the office carpet that will never show the stain, the words coming out in a lightly salivated rinse. "Couple of weeks ago (chomp) Carter goes into the plant up in Avon Lake (chomp) and says he'll give them a billion dollars (chomp, chomp, chomp). That's a lot of (chomp) bullshit...Reagan (chomp) can only cite the record (chomp). You talk about hostages (chomp), they're still hostages (chomp)..." The smile gets larger as the daughter of the waitress at the Czech grill downtown mechanically answers that mom will vote for Reagan. "Those...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Pride Grows With Progress | 11/3/1980 | See Source »

...edge on the Republicans because there's more of us than there are of them. It's not who's for you. It's how many." There are no windows in Ujhelyi's legal den, just a lot of pseudo-wood panelling and a deep red carpet. But Ujhelyi says he doesn't need to go out in the streets to know what's happening. The Democrats will...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Pride Grows With Progress | 11/3/1980 | See Source »

...will not be moved by out-of-state "noisy women," Anne Ramsay, travelling advocate for the ERA and a member of the President's Advisory Commission on Women, argues. NOW's hell-raising in Illinois--and the wholesale immigration of out-of-staters whom legislators were quick to label "carpet baggers"--was "politically naive," Ramsay says. "It was a great demonstration of emotion, but the rallies were totally ineffective...

Author: By Esme C. Murphy, | Title: The 'New Girls' Unite | 11/3/1980 | See Source »

Sporting buttons reading "We Sell Cleveland" and "Ask Me About Cleveland, Would You Like a Piece of Baklava?," volunteers rolled out the red, white and blue carpet for the more than 1500 journalists and observers who came to witness what everybody is calling the most important event of Campaign...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Journalists Flock to 'City of Forests' | 10/29/1980 | See Source »

Fifteen minutes and two penalty corners later, Bell rocketed another drive toward the cage, but this ball struck an intermediary: the leg of star link Ann Velie. Velie collapsed on the carpet in a heap, and was helped off the field minutes later with a pancake-sized bruise just above her knee...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Springfield Breezes Past Stickwomen | 10/17/1980 | See Source »

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