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Undaunted by the long odds against him, Kennedy plunged into Pennsylvania for 14 days of nonstop campaigning, from the urban East to the rural center to the steel mills of the West. He hammered away at Carter for mishandling the economy and conducting an uncertain foreign policy. Both turned out to be telling issues on primary day. A New York Times-CBS News survey of voters as they left the polls showed that people who supported Kennedy ranked jobs and inflation as the most important issues. Those concerns overwhelmed Chappaquiddick as an issue, despite a last-minute blitz of Carter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Day of the Underdogs | 5/5/1980 | See Source »

...Republican side, the delegate outcome was uncertain because the state elects delegates through a "blind ballot" system. ABC News last night projected that Reagan garnered 44 of the state's 83 delegates, to Bush...

Author: By Paul A. Engelmayer, | Title: Bush Beats Gov. Reagan In Pennsylvania Primary | 4/23/1980 | See Source »

...subsequent hesitations over acquiring bases in the area made it seem that he was again trying to avoid that world. Carter is obsessed by his claim that not a single American boy has died because of any of his orders. This attitude obscures the fact that his uncertain trumpet has surely encouraged the Cuban mercenaries in Africa, the Soviet dislocations in Ethiopia and the invasion of Afghanistan. All produced death and suffering for others. Now we are in danger of being pushed toward a conflict that could horribly mock Carter's self-righteousness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Too Good a Samaritan | 4/21/1980 | See Source »

...dies, and tough old Pearl now seems weak and uncertain. The film is not simply about a son living on; it is about the shock and sadness of parents dying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Family Portrait | 4/21/1980 | See Source »

...mother, Ella, Jean Comstock portrays the only member of the family without liquid dynamite coursing through her veins, and her performance makes it uncertain what exactly is there, other than dreams of Europe. Although expressively stooped and wearied, this Ella remains curiously unmotivated, leaving us unclear as to how she got into this mess in the first place...

Author: By Jonathan B. Propp, | Title: Death of the American Dream | 4/18/1980 | See Source »

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