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...eight-term Congresswoman, Schroeder, unlike Ferraro, never significantly penetrated the House leadership. Says one staffer: "She was close in but never inside." Some House members regard her as a bit of a flake. She signs her congressional mail with a smile symbol and is still taunted from time to time for having donned a bunny suit in China, to entertain children during Easter...
...president is no longer enough. It was fine when the Administration was railroading through its drastic measures, and a barrage of criticism was the only chance for a derailment. It made sense at the midterm elections, when in some districts the mere affiliation with Republicanism meant political death; eight-term Rep. Margaret Heckler of Southern Massachusetts was one such victim. Now, though, with the Reagan consensus clearly struggling, the only way to kill it off is with an appealing alternative agenda...
...Faces. Besides the new women, the election brought in a crop of conservative young Republicans who will try to solidify the political shift evidenced so strongly by Reagan's victory. John LeBoutillier, 27, a wealthy Harvard Business School graduate, was considered nothing but an upstart until he defeated eight-term Democrat Lester Wolff, 61, of Long Island. LeBoutillier is the author of two books: Primary, a scenario of a Saudi prince who parlays his oil wealth into political power, and Harvard Hates America, a collection of essays that take a jaundiced view of the university and liberalism...
Peck may get to keep that dime. Dornan's tactics have turned off voters and helped win Peck the endorsement of Dornan's predecessor, eight-term Republican Alphonzo Bell, who stayed neutral in 1978. He now criticizes Dornan's "extremist, right-wing viewpoints." Although Dornan and Peck are running about even in the polls, political experts give Peck a good shot at pulling ahead...
Fish, the only living member of the Walter Camp All-Time All-American football team and eight-term member of the U.S. House of Representatives, reminisced about a vicious Yale-Harvard basketball game in 1908 before awarding the first Hamilton Fish Most Improved Player Award to Donald Fleming, a freshman who averaged almost 12 points per outing...