Word: cranston
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...fallibility of preprimary polls leads some to dismiss their utility altogether. Says Lucien Haas, an aide to Senate Majority Whip Alan Cranston of California: "The polls are absolutely worthless." That is an exaggeration. The real problem is that since polling can assess the views of a body of voters but not which of those voters will actually vote, a preprimary sampling is only an approximation of what is likely to happen. Any politician or pundit who attributes to such a poll more accuracy or importance than it can realistically have does so at his own risk...
...hole left by departed rightfielder Stenhouse may be harder to fill, and a thumb through the Harvard record book reveals why. The Cranston, R.I., native set almost every career adn single-season mark a hitter can set in just three years. The remaining few were his for the asking, had he elected to stay at Harvard, but instead freshman Don Allard and returnee Billy Blood (.143) will inherit...
...That plaintive question was asked two weeks ago by Treasury Secretary G. William Miller as the Senate Banking Committee debated the appointment of a special prosecutor to look into charges of foreign bribes and Defense Department slush funds while he was chairman of Textron Inc. Answered California Senator Alan Cranston sternly: "The lingering doubt remains, from which you may never be free, that perhaps you didn't really want to know or you would have ordered an investigation." Two years after the allegations against Miller first surfaced, they continue to hound...