Word: exit
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When Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara came to campus in the fall of 1966 to gave a short talk in Quincy House, Lithgow watched as hundreds of students mobbed the secretary as he tried to leave, forcing him to exit though underground tunnels...
...CAMPAIGN, NOR WAS HE EVEN ON THE ballots. But thanks to voters in the Oregon and Washington primaries, Ross Perot pulled off another neat political trick that keeps him marching toward the White House without moving from his chair. In Oregon, exit polls showed that 13% of the Democrats and 15% of the Republicans took the extra trouble to write in his name. In Washington, where write-ins do not have to be certified until a week after the election, officials in tiny San Juan County were quickly able to come up with a tally that showed Perot beating both...
...along with its success has come a remarkable degree of opposition. A loose network of "exit counselors" seeks to pressure church members into quitting. Universities that welcome all manner of oddball groups on campus actively seek to curb these evangelists. Critics mail out booklets and tapes denouncing them. Some defectors -- who number half the converts since 1979 -- charge that the church has done them psychological or spiritual harm. Many are crying "cult," although dropout Rick Bauer thinks "authoritarian sect" is a better label...
Clinton's aides took heart from exit polls showing that 61% of Democrats believed that he had the honesty and integrity to be President. But the much touted survey was of Democrats only; a far more telling gauge of the public mood -- sobering for both Clinton and Bush -- was polls showing that Texas billionaire Ross Perot is running neck and neck with Bush and ahead of Clinton in California, Texas and New Mexico, which together are worth one-third of the electoral votes required to win the presidency...
TELEVISION The Cosby Show makes a graceful exit...