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...punch of the polls and Brother Billy rattled Democratic officeholders from Capitol Hill to statehouses across the nation. Their fear: a ticket headed by Carter in November could drag them down to defeat. Control of the House, as well as the Senate, suddenly seemed in danger. Democratic Senator Robert Byrd, the majority leader, who has never been close to Carter, quietly sounded out party colleagues on Capitol Hill. There was enough worry about the President's slippage for some Senators to consider sending a delegation to the White House to urge Carter to step aside in favor...
...damage has been most severe in autos and steel, which together constitute a sort of senior service in American industry. Both are reeling from the one-two punch of high interest rates and rising gasoline prices. These have helped send 1980 car sales to a 20-year low, and cut demand for steel by automakers, the steel industry's biggest single customer, by 42% so far this year. As sales have slumped, losses have mounted. Last week the troubled Chrysler Corp. reported a loss of $536.1 million between April and June, the biggest single deficit in its history...
...Cort's Max, while as wide-eyed and clumsy as Buster Keaton, fails to add the vibrant punch that his mordant Harold could not escape. Nor does love interest Samantha Eggar provide anything more than good, solid acting...
...Leonard and four other U.S. gold medalists in 1976. But Teofilio Stevenson, 29, was once again on hand to play wrecking ball to the heavyweight division. Although rumored to be out of shape, the regal Cuban knocked out his first opponent, Nigerian Solomon Ataga, with one lethal right-hand punch and then considerately helped him to his corner...
...futile lashing out against misery, often sexual and always social. "Comedy is essentially mood, not a series of one-liners," Dangerfield says. "Every joke is a complete story." The way he tells one, the audience can often see a whole life in a setup, and a fate in a punch line. "During sex my wife wants to talk to me," he confesses, then adds: "The other night she called me from a hotel...