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Highs for Mondale and Reagan

A TIME poll also shows growing concern about nuclear war

The race for the Democratic presidential nomination between Walter Mondale and John Glenn, almost neck and neck just three months ago, shows signs of becoming a runaway. According to a poll taken for TIME by Yankelovich, Skelly & White, Inc.,* the former Vice President's lead over the Ohio Senator, a narrow 28% to 26% in September, has stretched to a gaping 34% to 18% among Democrats and independent voters. Among Democrats alone, Mondale does even better: 39% to 16%. In the poll of Democrats...

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RAY KELLY, New York City Police Commissioner, on the arrest of a New Jersey man in one of the nation's most baffling missing-children cases, the disappearance more than three decades ago of 6-year-old Etan Patz.
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