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What did this international femme fatale have that her rivals (often the wives of her lovers) did not? "Pink like a peach that you wanted to bite into," recalled an observer. There was the acquired Churchill name and a knack for what Bedell Smith calls Zelig-like appearances among history makers. There was also what friends saw as her "ardent femininity" and detractors called "the manner of a hot housemaid...
...last time Skelton lost even one county in his district was during the Reagan landslide of 1984. But Skelton won that race, and has won every one since with at least 62% of the vote. A deficit hawk with a knack for winning defense dollars, he successfully fought to bring the Army Engineer Center to Fort Leonard Wood...
This year Johnson may make things even more uncomfortable for Pressler. The boyish Johnson, a fourth-generation South Dakotan and descendant of homesteaders, has a knack for connecting with his state's voters. He is a favorite of farmers, whose interests he has championed on the House Agriculture Committee, and of the state's elderly and Native American populations. He is likely to raise as much as $3 million, an impressive haul for a small-state candidate trying to oust an incumbent. Each side has released a poll putting its candidate ahead 49% to 39%, but most observers are calling...
Those words come from a man with a knack for adjusting his philosophy to fit the political circumstances of the moment. From the time he was elected student-body president at Northwestern University in 1961, on the highly pliable platform of "creative long-term leadership," Gephardt's ideology of choice has been pragmatism. Starting out as an antiabortion moderate who knocked off a union-backed incumbent to win his House seat in 1976, Gephardt evolved into a pro-choice liberal whom labor considers its most reliable friend in Congress. Not even his admirers are sure they know what...
...youth movement continued on offense where freshman running back Chris Menick seems poised to take the reigns of the Harvard running game from the stellar Eion Hu. Menick rushed for 91 yards on 25 carries and showed a knack for finding the hole...