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...sell himself to the blue collar worker, especially in the urban areas of Lowell and Lawrence. With blue collar voters. Kerry was haunted by the appearance (and reality) that he is a rich, prep school liberal with a long record of activism against the Vietnam War and the status quo in government. The memory of Kerry's testimony against the war before Congress, the memory of his arrest at the Vietnam Veterans demonstration in Lexington, and the recent publication of Kerry's book. The New Soldier, combined to alsenate rather it attract the blue collar vote that Kerry needed...
...lifted from subsidies by $1 billion, to $4 billion, helping increase fam income by 15%. Alex Harkness, a construction worker in Knoxville, Tenn., says complacently: "I have a new home, I have a new car. I'll stick with Nixon and hope the situation will just stay status quo for another four years...
BROWN shook the cosmos by winning a game two weeks ago, but the Bruins quickly restored the status quo by giving up 56 points to Yale the next week and 49 to Dartmouth last week (including a 21-point splurge in the space of two-and-a-half minutes). Today, the Bruins have an open date, and the defense will restore its conficence in a scrimmage against the Methuen-Midgets. Midgets...
...holy communion to ex-whores and drunkards. But this brief issue is even more deeply tied to prevalent cultural beliefs and social restrictions. Because the population is growing while the land remains divided in agrarian units under a feudal hierarchy, a fearsome religion is the bulwark of the status quo, and inbred into the people. Only when her youngest daughter dies is Kristina convinced that God wants her family to move elsewhere; only when Danjell claims to have heard God's call to Abraham in his inner voice, saying, "Get the to a land that I will show the," does...
...complicated: big money is solicited or offered with outrageous strings attached. Rarely has the taint of scandal been as strong as it is this year, and our cover story this week takes a nationwide look at the givers and takers, the mechanics and motives, the quid and the quo of modern campaign financing...