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There are, of course, multiple possibilities of error in such calculations. At the moment, for example, Illinois seems beyond McGovern's grasp without cooperation from Chicago Mayor Richard Daley. Texas, which went for Humphrey, looks ripe for Nixon because of McGovern's liberalism and the blunt opposition of John Connally, the Texas Democrat who has defected to the Republican Administration...
...eminent baseball authority, Son-in-Law David Eisenhower, who compiled player statistics in 1970 for the then Washington Senators, the President picked two separate teams, pre-and post-World War II, for each league. He explained his choices in some 2,800 words that re flected both a sure grasp of sport cliches and his own brand of rhetoric. He repeatedly used the term "get the nod" and said of a choice: "I have always had enormous respect for him, not only as a fine player but as a leader...
...Campanella and Yogi Berra. From the very outset, in his first full season with the Reds in 1968, the husky (6 ft., 209 Ibs.), handsome athlete took charge on the diamond, calling the defensive shots, cutting down base runners like so many cornstalks, and imposing his canny grasp of pitching tactics on temperamental hurlers. Said former Reds Pitcher Jim Maloney, eight years Bench's senior: "He'll come out to the mound and chew me out as if I were a two-year-old. And I like it." That was only the half of it. Squinting menacingly...
SOME naturalistic novels you read like you would your Freud or Marx, to grasp some wide-scale analysis of human experience to use to change your life. Others you might read solely for their expressive vision of a stratum of common experience, which might encompass ideology enroute, but is mainly concerned with the stink and feel of actions and their settings...
Perhaps. But, says Assistant Managing Editor Tim Leyland, "while he is not your intellectual aristocrat, he is a catalyzer. He's got a good grasp of trends and movement in society." Winship, 51, has made the paper sensitive to these trends and has also been receptive to the ideas of younger journalists. Last year he appointed a 29-year-old as metropolitan editor of the morning edition. "These brainy kids in the newsroom are our salvation," he told the American Society of Newspaper Editors. "They write better than we do, they know more than we do, and they...