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...Ostensibly the purpose of the trip was to win votes in the Ohio primary this Tuesday, one of nine that once looked like the exciting windup of the nomination campaign. But all the drama had gone out of that contest, since Carter, after winning primaries in Arkansas, Kentucky and Nevada last week, was by his own count only four delegates short of the 1,666 needed to renominate him at the Democratic Convention in New York City in August. So his strategists tried to upstage a long-scheduled Reagan rally on the steps of the Ohio state capitol in Columbus...
...settle matters quickly, the campaign wound down in a mood of sullen discontent. Turnouts have dwindled to as low as 11% of the registered voters in the Michigan Republican primary two weeks ago, a shocking figure by any standards. "Uncommitted" polled a third of the votes in the Nevada Democratic primary last week. More than half the voters are telling pollsters that they wish there were some other choice than Carter and Reagan. Though John Anderson has proclaimed himself that other choice, more than 50% tell pollsters that he has no chance...
...should go to Nevada to one of the houses they have there," meaning Nevada's legal brothels. Such extravagant abuse apparently has caused many voters, who admired Jarvis as engagingly feisty two years ago, to write him off now as a vulgar demagogue...
...missile system being planned for Utah and Nevada is nuclear madness in its galloping stages...
...Dugway, Utah. The missiles were programmed to sprint at 500 m.p.h. round and round an aerial race course 100 miles long by 30 miles wide. In later tests some cruises were dropped from B-52s 60 miles out into the Pacific and programmed to fly back over California and Nevada to Utah. Air Force F-4 Phantom chase planes closely followed to observe and take over the missiles by radio control if anything went wrong. During one General Dynamics flight, TIME Correspondent Jerry Hannifin watched the missile belting along at 500 m.p.h. across the desert about 10 ft. above...