51.   Most prospective candidates have spent months quietly courting support in states with early caucuses or primaries, such as Iowa and New Hampshire.

52.   Most other prospective candidates surveyed by the Globe laid out a similar or speedier timetable.

53.   New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, another prospective Republican candidate, is said to be planning a trip soon.

54.   Neither should be dismissed as prospective candidates for governor.

55.   Only recently has Mfume begun sounding more like a prospective candidate.

56.   Owner Tom Benson, a car dealer, sent a questionnaire to prospective coaching candidates, asking whether they would work weekends.

57.   Presidential preference surveys among GOP primary voters generally show Specter at or near the bottom of prospective candidates.

58.   Polls of Republican primary voters have shown, consistently, that Mrs. Dole is second only to Gov. George W. Bush of Texas as the most popular prospective candidate.

59.   Presumably, Giuliani weighed such factors heavily as a prospective senatorial candidate.

60.   Prospective candidates apparently believe that the national unity produced by the terrorist attack is bound to favor the party in power and reject the party in opposition.