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Under Cambridge's antiquated system of proportional balloting, voters rank candidates in order of preference--one, two, three and so on. As a candidate reaches quota and is declared elected, his surplus votes are transferred to the candidate ranked second on the ballot. Then, the candidate with the fewest votes is eliminated in successive rounds and his ballots are similarly redistributed. This process continues until all the seats are filled...
...Crimson had allowed 118 points...Halfback Rufus Jones is still sidelined with a knee injury and will not play against Brown...Ken Tarczy was named to the ECAC Weekly Honor Roll for his team-high 11 tackles and one interception against Princeton...Harvard's six points were the fewest it had scored since it managed just three in a 3-3 tie at Cornell more than two years...
Starting with Quisenberry, or rather, stopping with him, Kansas City is a team of pitchers, a gentle way of saying the Royals have the feeblest batting average in the American League and have scored the second-fewest runs. California, on the other hand, is a team of pensioners. From First Baseman Rod Carew to Rightfielder Reggie Jackson, as sure as the Chicago Cubs play in daylight, the California Angels play in twilight. Their manager, Gene Mauch, is the most respected one never to win a pennant. Ahead of the Royals by one game in the West division, the Angels faced...
...glaring sunstorm boiled the fewest Louisville customers in 15 years (down almost 20,000 to about 108,000, mostly a matter of ticket prices' doubling) and baked the dirt track until the word blew about the backstretch shed rows like a whisper on a breeze: "It's Highway I-65 out there." That cinched what had been the popular wisdom all week. This race would turn on the two speedballs in the field of 13: Spend A Buck and Eternal Prince. Should both dart out ahead, might they form a suicide pact? "Sure, they could kill each other," Jockey Angel...
Dole, a self-described moderate conservative, emerged victorious from a field of five contenders. Idaho Conservative James McClure was eliminated on the first ballot. (The election rules required that the candidate receiving the fewest votes on each ballot be dropped from the next round.) Pete Domenici of New Mexico was knocked off on the second ballot, and Richard Lugar of Indiana on the third...