Word: contests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Votes got pretty thin around 50, let alone for number 300, so R-KO experts Arnie Ginsberg, (yes, the Wood lives!), J. J. Jeffreys, and Mel Phillips beefed up the list. But the final tabulation (printed on a fold-out sheet and sent to all voters and contest entrants) remains distressingly modern and far from definitive...
...statement of Cambridge Vote on Vietnam, which probably will not appear on the ballot, the CNCV resolution is worded to encompass all shades of dovish opinion. One of the six such referendums across the country, it comes during the last nation-wide series of elections prior to the 1968 contest. It may well be watched as an indicator of public opinion...
Trivia and general knowledge are considered essential in this no-holds-barred contest. The questions range more widely and the rules are less strict than on the T.V. program...
...contest is part of the general PBH prison program. The state-employed teachers who coach the prisoners report that competition for positions on the squad is fierce...
Many of the prisoners are experts on such subjects as ornithology, linguistics, and mythology, Schamdorff said. This knowledge, often acquired as a hobby, is given a rare outlet in the PBH contest. Last year one prisoner overwhelmed the Harvard team with a display of knowledge of French history and literature...