71.   A year in advance, each salesman knows that every other week he will spend a week away from home.

72.   A year later, he fell ill twice with pneumonia and spent several weeks in the hospital.

73.   Accompanied by his wife, Laura, the leading contender for the Republican presidential nomination is spending the week campaigning and raising money in the Southeast.

74.   Administration officials have spent recent weeks busily backpedaling, trying to defuse the backlash.

75.   After spending a few weeks unsuccessfully looking for another job in New York, she returned to Los Angeles to do freelance work with her old employer.

76.   After spending a week in Brazil, I discovered that Florida has cast a spell over the land of sensuous sambas and Amazonian waterways.

77.   After her visit with relatives in the Dayton area this week, Mintz will spend a week conferring with University of Maryland faculty in College Park.

78.   After his grandmother died, Smith quit his job and went to Atlanta to spend a few weeks with his mother and his brothers and sisters.

79.   After consultations with several doctors here, he and his wife spent a week at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn.

80.   After UCLA spends a week in Dallas for the Cotton Bowl, the Texas recruits come to town.