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...next disappointment came in Dartmouth. A fired-up Harvard team ran one of its hottest races, but the hilly nature of the course favored their opponent, and the Crimson suffered a painfully close 25-30 defeat...
...Jersey voters decided by a large margin to allow gambling casinos to be built and operated in Atlantic City. The referendum on gambling was one of the hottest issues in the state, arousing the strong opposition of religious leaders and law-enforcement officials who warned that turning the beach-resort city into a Las Vegas East would attract not only tourists but also organized crime, prostitution and loan sharks. The Committee to Rebuild Atlantic City spent $1 million arguing that casino gambling would resuscitate the dowdy, declining resort and bring much-needed revenue into the city and the state...
Voters' passions this fall seem to have been aroused less by the candidates than by controversial propositions placed on the ballot by ardent environmentalists in some dozen states. Among the hottest environmental issues to be decided by the voters...
...issue flared hottest in the second television debate between the candidates. Then, Ford declared that he would direct the Commerce Department to make public the names of companies that "have participated" in the boycott. Companies are required to notify the Commerce Department of every boycott request they receive. But Ford's phrasing seemed to promise more than he had meant. The next day, the Administration had to back off. Commerce Secretary Elliot Richardson announced he would release only those Arab requests made to U.S. companies after Oct. 6 -the day of the debate-since earlier reports had been made...
...northern Japan's Hakodate airport last month (TIME, Sept. 20). Meanwhile, as the Soviets fume, American aeronautical experts have been examining the MIG-25 inch by eager inch, learning everything they always wanted to know about the one plane in the world that can outclimb and outfly the hottest U.S. fighters...