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...When the voting starts, will people line up behind Walter Mondale? Despite the gathering momentum of his campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination, skeptics note that Mondale has not aroused the electorate, that his support, in the words of one, is "a mile wide and an inch thick." Another doubter likens Mondale's campaign to a glass train: one bump, and it is sure to shatter...
...horses. Perhaps this will be his last Games. But then he stirs restlessly at the thought of Calgary in four years. "The Olympics," he says, "is the last real drama." That is precisely what he and ABC are striving to create for 13 days and nights in the 19-inch prosceniums in America's living rooms...
...plastered top and bottom with splashy trademarks. If manufacturers had their way, skiers might become as laden with logos and decals as race drivers usually are. But International Ski Federation rules say that trademarks on goggles and gloves, for example, can be no larger than .78 of an inch...
Window Broken: A police officer reported a 12 by 6-inch window in the office of the superintendent of Eliot House broken Repairs were estimated...
...pillar of respectability. "I love you, and I want you bitterly," Mabel wrote to Dickinson. Her husband seems to have been remarkably tolerant, and so was the genteel society of Amherst. When Dickinson died in 1895, nobody was surprised that Mabel kissed what she called "the dear body, every inch of which I know and love so utterly...