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...battling far more than Carter. He was contending against an entire wide screen filled with articulate and forceful Republicans, television's insistent commentators and an audience that considered itself part of the action, not mere spectators. A lot of those farmers came to the rallies with their FM radios tuned to hear Chicago commodity markets and news about Jimmy Carter and Leonid Brezhnev. For Ted Kennedy, winning attention, let alone devotion, is a job bigger than that faced by his brothers...
...paper) offers information on some 200 distance races, from four miles on up, with evaluations of the courses, the facilities available and the prizes awarded finishers. Target 26 (Collier; $4.95) provides some practical advice for anyone interested in marathons. The book is written in the same style as FM 22-5, the Army field manual that explains, among other things, how to turn left while marching. In addition, Target 26 trudges far too long through the minutiae of long-distance running. The authors remind readers unnecessarily that runners' "arms should move in a pendulum fashion, bending at the elbows...
WHRB: 95.3 on your FM dial. From rock to Rachmaninoff to r&b, HRB plays "orgies," hours of the work of almost any artist, and schedules some offbeat programming like "Hillbilly at Harvard...
...binoculars, telescopes and crash helmets. Jay Schatz, owner of a luxury high-rise apartment building on Chicago's Near North Side, scheduled a sub-basement party for tenants that would begin two hours before Skylab was expected to break up. Radio stations eagerly joined the hoopla. Ohio's WNCI-FM in Columbus offered $98,000 to the first Ohioan bringing in a locally found piece of the Skylab wreckage within 98 hours of impact. In Atlanta, callers could win yellow T shirts bearing a bull's-eye and the words I'M AN OFFICIAL WQXI-AM 79 SKYLAB TARGET...
Like nomadic pilgrims looking for their lost Mecca, folk followers never give up searching for their musical ideal. Humming Judy Collins' tunes under their breath, they turn desperately to FM radio and infrequent concerts, and on sunny days even perform strange rituals with guitars under the trees in the Yard and Cambridge Common. Initiates fervently insist the only true folk music is live folk music...