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...hammer home his displeasure with the Socialists, Marchais unveiled a strategy that if pursued to the end would virtually assure the left of defeat in March. In the first round of voting, on March 12, the electorate chooses its favored candidates in an elimination contest. In the second, or runoff, round, held a week later, the custom among allied parties, left or right, requires the losing side to support the first-round winner. Thus if a Socialist candidate scored higher in Round 1, he would receive Communist support in Round 2. But Marchais decreed that the Communists would refuse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Brawling Before the Elections | 1/23/1978 | See Source »

College. Fully half of the Dallas first-round draft picks over the years have been All-Pros...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's Denver and Dallas | 1/16/1978 | See Source »

...intangible that's not in the statistics. It's an underlying negative bias," explains the Celtics' first-round pick in the 1970 draft. "Upfront no one's thinking about losing, but in the back of his mind, he's wondering...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cowens Says Celtics' Slump Is Just Temporary | 11/9/1977 | See Source »

...FIRST-ROUND PAIRINGS EAIAW TOURNEY...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Sports Scoreboard | 11/3/1977 | See Source »

...Bunis dropped his first-round "C" match to the Elis' ambidextrous Jim Kaufman, but then Pompan caught fire in that division to provide the most spark in a generally lackluster Crimson effort...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tiger Bite Afflicts Crimson Racquetmen | 10/3/1977 | See Source »

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