61.   If any young man in Midland seemed destined for the White House, classmates remember, it was he.

62.   In California, at UCLA, men seemed strangely different, more attracted to the young woman who was leading the softball team in hitting every season.

63.   In recent years, seasoned men seem to have become just one more constituent group.

64.   In retrospect, relatives and friends say, all three men seemed destined to go wrong.

65.   In the short term, both men seem destined to lose.

66.   In these eerie moments, the man being honored seemed to be both there and not there.

67.   In the end, political analysts said neither man seemed to have landed any knockout blows.

68.   In the movies, as in the culture as a whole, Asian-American men seem to have no sexual clout.

69.   Indeed, even while Chrysler was being repulsed in the magazine world, a marketing man seemed to be driving a bulldozer through the Chinese wall in newspapers.

70.   It is true that the men now seem to be dressed in duds from the Banana Republic chain.