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...take off from the western rim of the Coliseum, soar down the field during the playing of the national anthem, and land on a perch built in the form of one of the Olympic symbols, five interlocking rings. Bomber, warming to the mission, "had a couple of crash landings," the trainer says, but it was game...
...understudy got the part and showed it had the mettle. Rehearsing to the strains of Fame, Fluff wheeled on a thermal, eyed Hoddy, heard the music ("I'm gonna live forever!/ I'm gonna learn how to fly!"), dive-bombed the field and hit the perch without a hitch. There was applause all around. The eagle had landed. But a vigorous press got wind of Bomber's fatal stress, and the controversy that followed sadly resulted in Fluffs being pulled from the show...
...right in Congress. More to the point, no one is really expecting the Republicans to make any major inroads into the Democratic majority in the House. The real action is going to be in the Senate, where a shift of six seats could return the Democrats to the top perch and return important committee chairmanships to senators like Sam Nunn (Armed Forces), Edward M. Kennedy (Labor and Human Resources), and Lloyd Bentsen (Environment and Public Works...
...student of the '80s more preprofessional, more career-oriented than the undergraduate from the '60s? From my perch. I have been asked that question a thousand times by pop analysts and chic social journalists trying to observe or confirm a trend. My honest answer is that I don't know. I was in a kindergarten classroom the day of the University Hall takeover, and got glimpses of the anti-Vietnam protests only in the newsbreaks that interrupted the cartoons...
...Fairmont (Minn.) Daily Sentinel. "If he doesn't get more specific, he might blow it." As the debate showed, Mondale has some hard questions to answer, such as how he really plans to reduce the deficit and pay off all those promises to interest groups. His high perch is fragile. Beneath him, the hounds are milling and jumping, barking to be heard. -By Evan Thomas. Reported by Hays Gorey/Washington and Christopher Ogden/ Chicago, with other bureaus