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Both combatants could take pride in their play so far. The Colorado Senator had come from a lowly sixth place among eight competitors and had raced through the field to overtake the superbly organized front runner. Then Hart faltered. Mondale, almost sidelined by a string of upsets beginning in New Hampshire, last week capped a spectacular comeback with a big win in Pennsylvania. Although Hart leads in state primary and caucus victories, 15 to 14, the former Vice President now holds almost a 2-to-1 lead in delegates (see chart). While he claims that he relishes the role...
Those assessments may be too sweeping in a year in which voter sentiment has seemed so volatile. Still, it was the Hart team that faced by far the greater need for a halftime readjustment of its game plan. Pennsylvania culminated a string of Hart defeats in the populous industrial Northern states from Illinois to New York that Democrats will need to upset Ronald Reagan in November...
...further omission is anything by Anthony Burgess, though the author coyly hints that one of his 27 novels might round off the list nicely. If so, Dark Lady is not the one. The book is too casual and sketchy, with a string of improbable, scurrilously farcical episodes serving for a plot. It measures up to only one of the criteria that Burgess applies in 99 Novels: the novelists' capacity to create "human beings whom we accept as living creatures...
...lines of code Wise types into his Apple He may look like a meaningless string of letters and numbers, but they are the crucial link between computers and the people who use them. At the heart of every machine are thousands of on-off switches. Wise's 64K Apple has 524,288. Software tells the switches when to turn on and off, and those switches control the machine...
...months with singular and characteristic adroitness. In the wake of Aquino's slaying, more than a million citizens took to the streets of Manila, marching on the President's Malacañang Palace and calling outright for his resignation. But Marcos shrewdly countered their attacks with a string of concessions that were accommodating enough to mute some criticism yet narrow enough to prevent real change...