41.   Gore and Bradley campaigned lightly in New Hampshire on Tuesday, spending the bulk of their day closeted with consultants to prepare for their first head-to-head contest.

42.   Meanwhile, a poll released Tuesday showed Gore and Bradley in a close race in Iowa, which holds the first presidential nominating contest in January.

43.   The first test will be conducted this Friday, three days before the first contest.

44.   The state is accustomed to this kind of attention as the site of the Iowa caucuses, the first presidential contest in the nation.

45.   The winner of this tournament -- the first southern African contest to become part of the European PGA Volvo Tour -- automatically qualifies for the series.

46.   Under his new name, Giordano won his first political contest in November, finishing second out of the nine state representatives elected to the House from Salem.

47.   But US Senate leader Robert Dole was clearly relieved to scrape by in the first major contest for the Republican presidential nomination.

48.   Rainer Schuettler of Germany, the fifth seed, and number seven Davide Sanguinetti of Italy also won their respective first round contests.

49.   Senate leader Robert Dole won the first major contest for the Republican presidential nomination here, but came under a strong challenge from conservative commentator Pat Buchanan.

50.   The first real contest was Iowa on Tuesday and the second is next week in New Hampshire.