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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...
...House freely rotated 17 players in the game, including sophomore Lucy Wood. A number of Crimson players, particularly scoring ace Jeff Garrity and 200-pound defensemen Chris Dowd and Walt Herbert, were heavier and stronger than their foes, and Kirkland House hoped to be able to wear the Eli's down...
...after wealthy farmers and businessmen met to protest the government's agrarian and educational reforms, Torrijos retaliated by packing eleven of his critics off into exile in Ecuador. After a five-day slowdown by business leaders, Torrijos changed his mind and agreed to allow the exiles to return. Heavier pressure is coming from leftist university students who demand the speedy return of the canal and total elimination of the American presence. Marching last month in memory of 21 "martyrs" who were killed by "Yanqui bullets" during bloody Canal Zone riots in 1964, students carried placards with the curt warning...
...ballot featuring both a record number of presidential candidates and amendments to the state constitution, voting machine breakdowns, and a heavier-than-expected turnout in some wards contributed to the slowdown...
...Kaller (118 lbs.) lost the opening match, 3-1, to a Navy opponent in the weight class above him. Rick Bialek and Kelly Jensen also suffered defeat at the hands of heavier opponents...