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...nothing else about today's Harvard-Yale showdown is certain, you can bet that Yale senior defensive end Jack Kelley tried to remember to bring his sandals to Cambridge. It's been a ritual with Kelley for quite some time now--sun or snow, at home or away, he dons those sandals for the walk to the pre-game breakfast every Saturday morning...
...government and the impression two carefully rehearsed politicians make in a fleeting 90 minutes of TV time is deeply disquieting. But in a sense the election has been building toward that kind of bizarre climax. For more than a year, two flawed candidates have been floundering toward the final showdown, each unable to give any but his most unquestioning supporters much reason to vote for him except dislike of his opponent. Carter has been dogged by inflation and unemployment at home and turmoil overseas during his years in office, Reagan by a reputation for right-wing extremism and simplistic thinking...
Thus both men approached the showdown on TV with the caution the situation deserved. Their aides wrangled for hours last week before settling on Cleveland on the night of Oct. 28 as offered by the League of Women Voters. At one point Carter's camp proposed a debate on Oct. 26, the day the Iranian parliament had scheduled to discuss the hostages. The Reaganites refused because, as Campaign Aide James Baker candidly explained, "One thing we did not want was an announcement about the hostages by the President Sunday night during the debate." The later in the week, Reagan...
Amid the whirlwind of emotions over the late-late TV showdown debate and the American hostages, U.S. voters will go to the polls on Nov. 4 to make an irrevocable choice with which they will have to live for at least four years. Despite the confusion caused by the shifting positions of the presidential candidates and the hyperbole and innuendo of a disappointing campaign, Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan offer, in many ways, clear-cut and contrasting choices. Whatever other complaints the 1980 American voter may have (and there are many), he cannot complain that he has been confronted with...
Though the debate might be too much too late, the unique campaign pressures of 1980 seemed to compel the candidates to accept the invitation, offered by the League of Women Voters, to meet in a showdown session, tentatively set for Oct. 28 in Cleveland. Only one other possible event could be as pivotal to the election outcome as the TV clash: a deal between the U.S. and Iran that would bring the American hostages home before Election Day, presumably to Carter's great credit. Last week Iranian Prime Minister Mohammed Ali Raja'i raised that possibility...