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...vote in the 1952 presidential election, network officials thought it a nifty publicity stunt. But when the printout appeared, an embarrassed Charles Collingwood reported that the machine couldn't make up its mind. It was not until after midnight that CBS confessed the truth: Univac had correctly predicted Dwight Eisenhower would swamp Adlai Stevenson in one of the biggest landslides in history, but nobody believed it. It is a defining moment in THE MACHINE THAT CHANGED THE WORLD, a surprisingly satisfying five-part history of the computer that starts April 6 on PBS. Crafted from old footage and fresh reportage...
...happy time for those who like to believe an athlete can be an admirable figure on or off the field of dreams. In early March a woman accused three New York Mets players, including star pitcher Dwight Gooden, of raping her a year ago in Gooden's Florida spring-training home. Last week three other women brought an $8.1 million suit against Mets pitcher David Cone, charging him with various sexual outrages, including masturbating in front of one of them in the Shea Stadium bullpen in 1989. This woman says that as she left the bullpen Cone told...
Republicans, who have been strong on the issue, believe the American people no longer care about it. Democrats, who have been weak on the issue, are afraid to raise it. Both are making a grave mistake. In 1956 President Dwight Eisenhower ran on the slogan of "Peace and Prosperity." Today both goals totally depend on whether we adopt a new American internationalism...
...Dwight H. Perkins, director of HIID, spoke of Mason's "enormous influence" on the University's treatment of international issues. "He had a vision about what could be created at Harvard and went about and created it," he said...
Unfortunately for Buchanan, paleocon-servatism was dispatched by the rank-and-file of the Republican party 40 years ago. In 1952, Sen. Robert A. Taft, "Mr. Republican," met defeat at the hands of Dwight D. Eisenhower. Ike, of course, had spent the primary season in Europe as Supreme Allied Commander...