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...Ford has solid leads in Arizona, Utah, Wyoming and Idaho. Alaska, Washington and Montana tilt toward Ford. New Mexico, which has voted for the winner in every presidential election since it entered the Union in 1912, is too close to call, with perhaps 16% of the voters still undecided. Nevada, Colorado and Oregon are also dead heats. So is the biggest prize of all-California...
...WEST. Ford is out front in Arizona, Utah, Idaho and Wyoming. Two states, Alaska and Montana, are leaning toward him. Carter is ahead only in Hawaii, and he has slipped there. California, Oregon, Washington, Colorado, New Mexico and Nevada remain too close to call...
...when, with the support of their government, Texas unilaterally declared its independence from Mexico in order to enter the Union. This led to the acquisition of not only the territory of that state but also of that now occupied by the states of Arizona, New Mexico, California, Utah, Nevada and parts of others...
Young Janine Hansen of Nevada decries ERA as a plot to destroy the family. Her family is a significant one at this convention--they make up five of the nine members of the Nevada delegation. Soon, it becomes apparent that this is representative of much of the convention--a gathering of family and friends active in this sort of thing since the Wallace crusade of 1968 and resentful of highbrow outsiders from the aborted Reagan campaign...
Smith and Bull are one of the odder couples in publishing. Irish Catholic Smith grew up in a Manhattan tenement, quit school at 15 to deliver flowers, drive a cab, and rope cattle in Nevada-all the while writing poems and short stories. Eventually, he worked his way through New York University. A $7,500-a-year fireman 13 years ago, Smith is worth nearly $1 million today, thanks to book earnings and the sale of the movie rights for Engine Co. 82 to Paramount Pictures. He drives to the firehouse in a Mercedes and lives...