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Perhaps most dramatic has been the plunge in Jimmy Carter's support. The Gallup poll showed him dropping from 62% (and a 33-point lead) in late July to 48% (a six-point margin) as of last week. Harris had him at 66% (a lead of 39 points) in July, which fell to 47% and a five-point edge last week. Yankelovich, who conducts opinion soundings for TIME, never gave Carter more than 48% and a ten-point lead, and right after the first debate had him running dead even with Gerald Ford...
When Silas stole the ensuing in-bounds pass, Boston had the victory nailed down. Jo Jo White was fouled and got two more free throws to forge the final five-point margin...
Radcliffe held a five-point lead over MIT going into the final races into the two divisions, and seemed a sure bet to repeat its past successes in the regatta. "But," as coach Mike Horn commented, "all streaks have to end sometime...
...from New Jersey or New York, a setup which is known as a "split crew." This was the case for the televised Boston College-Georgetown hoedown on February 21, for which Diehl arrived his usual hour and a half before the opening tap-off. He had worked Harvard's five-point loss to Penn the night before at Philadelphia's Palestra...
...game well played results in a victory of some kind: for Harvard, good performance begets a one-or two-point defeat. Yale turned the trick by a 63-62 score. Dartmouth by a 66-64 count. Brown, 58-56. Fordham, 70-68. B.C., 72-71. Tack on a few five-point defeats, and either Harvard is very unlucky or something else is wrong...