Word: legwork
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...that work may give the students an impact beyond their numbers. The committed ones spent the summer analyzing their performance in the primaries in order to correct their mistakes. The M.N.C. volunteers will go out with a mandate to fit into the candidate's plans and do legwork that may not be glamorous but is important. Example: by delivering a "mailing" house-to-house in a congressional district, students can save a candidate postage amounting to thousands of dollars -money to be used for another crucial campaign need. For that reason, few candidates are spurning the limited student help...
...last night in the White House; can get away without tipping hat-check girls at New York's Inmost restaurants; introduced Two-Ton Tony Galento to Noel Coward and Marc Chagall to Richard Nixon. Leonard Lyons also is the last syndicated celebrity columnist who does all his own legwork...