Word: contests
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Deceptively Simple. No one denies that a presidential contest-with costly TV and radio commercials-requires vast amounts of money, or that basic changes are needed to ensure that wealthy candidates do not enjoy unfair advantages. The Long Act, named for Senate Finance Chairman Russell Long, sought to solve the problem in a deceptively simple manner. Basically, it allowed each taxpayer to check a box on his federal income tax return allotting $1 (on joint returns, $2) of his tax payment for presidential campaigns. The taxpayer could not denote what party or what candidate he wanted to receive his money...
...election of the President of India usually has about as much political significance as the choice of a beauty queen-and is even less of a contest. Yet last week for the first time a race was on for the largely ceremonial post. It was between Zakir Husain, 70, backed by the ruling Congress Party, and Chief Justice Subba Rao, 59, of the Indian Supreme Court, the candidate of the seven opposition parties in Parliament. The Congress Party's choice of Husain, who is currently India's Vice President, was noteworthy because he would be the first Moslem...
...overcome the government's tenuous 17 vote majority. It has relentlessly picked at Indira, accused her of using official gifts from visiting heads of state for her own enjoyment and of heartlessly denying permission to Svetlana Stalina to stay in India. If it can show strength in the contest for the presidency, which will be decided by an electoral college of state and national legislators on May 6, the opposition might lure more Congress members of Parliament over to its side and perhaps even threaten the tenure of Mrs. Gandhi's Cabinet...
...league's Most Valuable Player three times. But he has never played on a championship team. Last week he took out his frustration on the Celtics, and particularly on his longtime nemesis, Boston's 6-ft. 10-in. center and coach, Bill Russell. In a fierce personal contest that one sportswriter described as "the flashiest high-altitude duel since Eddie Rickenbacker v. Baron von Richthofen," Chamberlain outscored Russell 108-57, out-rebounded him 160-117, made 50 assists to Russell...
This past week Parker has continued to try different combinations in his varsity shell and line-ups are not yet set for tomorrow's contest. Finalized boatings have been impossible because weather caused a three-week delay in getting out on the river this winter...