Facing the Fatigue Factor

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Pushed and inspected for unrelenting months, all the candidates last week had some R. and R. On Wednesday, Mondale had a relatively calm day in Phoenix, joking with a winner's swagger about his fatigue. "I'm not tired," he said. "But the Smithsonian called and wanted my eyeballs." Hart, still troubled by bronchitis and a nasty cough, spent the time at home in Denver, resting up and swallowing antibiotics. "The day off helped a lot," Hart said on Thursday—in between high-pressure public appearances in Missouri, right back on the campaign trail.

—By Kurt Andersen, Reported by Sam Allis with Mondale and David Beckwith with Hart, and other bureaus