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...Consultant Richard Scammon put the blame on "a heavier switch than we'd anticipated in rural areas." ABC'S Walter Pfister shrugged it off as "a fluke, an anomaly." All three networks base their projections on a model-precinct system. When the results of those precincts are analyzed, they are supposed to give an accurate projection for a state. But ABC and NBC, in their haste to post a winner, took a gamble when the race was too close to call. At the time ABC projected Udall, the News Election Service (see following story), which supplies the networks...
...nine strokes, Harvard was moving away from the highly-touted Cadet shell. This shock may have been too great for the young Crimson eight, some of whom were still convinced that their victory in San Diego two weeks ago over the best crews in the country was merely a fluke...
...Harvard that fast or were the other crews (the best in the country) that slow? Did the Crimson's fast start or The Harvard Mystique merely demoralize the contenders? Only the remainder of this racing season will determine whether Harvard's victory was a statement of superiority or a fluke...
...Harvard baseball team's bicentennial tour of the East coast ended in shambles Saturday, as coach Loyal Park's charges proved that Friday's Philadelphia disaster was no fluke by dropping a doubleheader 24 hours later to the suddenly-respectable Columbia Lions in New York City...
...victims in the second explosion was James Sturgill, 48, a 14-year veteran of the area's bituminous coal mines. His cousin Jimmy, 20, had died in the first blast, and Sturgill readily volunteered to join the group that went down to investigate. The blast was "a fluke," Sturgill had said. "I'm no more afraid to go into the mine than I ever was. This is a fact of life that coal men must live with. If you thought about the dangers, it would drive you out of your mind. I don't think about...