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With one month to go in the longest presidential campaign in American history, the candidates are acting as if they are just getting started. They are putting on a burst of speed, going more places, giving more speeches, campaigning as if their lives depended on it-and indeed their political lives do. In these last critical weeks, Carter and Reagan are trying to reach the winning number of 270 electoral votes by zeroing in on the same glittering jackpot-the nation's eight most populous states, with a combined total of 228 electoral votes: California, New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois...
...many areas of the complex political life of a diverse nation, it all depends. So, while Reagan is ahead now, a campaign's last month is always its longest. The voters' interest warms, the attention begins to concentrate, everything said and spent matters more, the mosaic of choice begins to harden. The battle for the battleground states has, in a sense, just begun...
...addition to the significance of defeating an opponent that had knocked off Pac-10 power California earlier this season, the victory raised Harvard's record to a perfect 3-0 and extends the team's winning streak to five, its longest since...
...point: many pay networks typically show a film no more than ten times a year, which would leave the actors with 4.5% of nothing. Some of his colleagues are as unhappy as he is, but may vote to ratify anyway. The strike, which began July 21, is the longest the actors have ever undertaken and has already cost many of them a good part of their yearly income...
...midpoint, he will become only the third coach to win 300 games. Late next year he should pass Pop Warner (313) and Amos Alonzo Stagg (314) to become the coach with the most victories in college-football history. His teams have won 23 games in a row, currently the longest winning streak in big-time college football. Bryant has taken teams to bowl games 26 times (a record); last season's Sugar Bowl appearance was the 21st consecutive postseason trip for Alabama's Crimson Tide (also a record). Under his stewardship, the polls gave Alabama the national championship...