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Hints. The entire McGovern phenomenon-his progress from near-obscurity to something like a fait accompli-has left the Democratic Party in a state bordering on stupefaction. Only now, perhaps too late, are the party's regulars beginning to shake off their astonishment and think of ways to avert what many of them regard as the disaster of a McGovern candidacy. But thus far no one has produced a candidate, an organization or a plausible scenario to stop McGovern...
Some things can be done to avert a showdown. Companies in danger of bumping against their profit-margin ceilings could pour more money into such activities as advertising and research and development, thereby reducing immediate profits but also perhaps increasing their share of the market. Willard F. Rockwell Jr., chairman of Rockwell Manufacturing Co., Pittsburgh-based maker of valves, meters and power tools, views the necessity of complying with margin ceilings as a chance to "give my competitors a good kick in the pants...
...particularly satisfying weekend for the Crimson. With five events remaining in the meet they faced the distinct possibility of a loss to the Big Red. In fact, Harvard needed a sweep of the last three individual swimming events to avert a rather unexpected defeat. But improbable as that seemed the team pulled three straight sweeps to clinch the meet before the final relay...
...Penn at 8 p.m. at Watson Rink. The Crimson defeated the Quakers, 11-3, in the season opener in December, but when the two teams met again in the consolation round of the Christmas Tournament out in St. Louis, Harvard needed four goals in the third period to avert major upset...
...solution, in the view of U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield, is to bring the U.N. into the picture. "This is the time, now, today, not tomorrow, for the Security Council to act," he said. But the fact is that, even though all the big powers are anxious to avert a conflict on the subcontinent, none are rushing to place the issue before the U.N. Security Council for fear that they might prove to be unable to agree. Lying in his hospital bed in New York City, U.N. Secretary-General U Thant confided to one of his aides last week...