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Carter's quick knockout of his foe and Kennedy's retributive triumph came on the convention's first two days. By winning 24 primaries to Kennedy's ten, Carter had sent 1,982 delegates to New York, 316 more than required for the nomination. Not only were they unlikely to defect, but they would have been prohibited from doing so if the convention adopted a rule, proposed by the party's National Committee in 1978, requiring all delegates to cast their first roll call votes for the candidate to whom they had been committed. If he was to keep...
...brutal battle, head-to-head, toe-to-toe, a real slugfest, waiting for the knockout punch...
...first won the heavyweight title in 1964 on a seventh-round knockout of Sonny Liston. Stripped of the crown in 1967 after he refused to serve in the military, he regained it in his eight-round knockout of George Foreman in the Kinshasa, Zaire, "Rumble in the Jungle" of 1974. After losing to Leon Spinks in 1978, Ali regained the title for an unprecendented third time when he defeated Spinks later that year...
...disaster of Iowa has shot through his campaign--softening up the tough old man and leaving him wide open for a knockout punch. But Iowa may not have turned out the way it did if Reagan had stepped on the brakes, mingled with the crowds more often, and at the very least, stopped speeding long enough to participate in the Republican debate in Des Moines in January...
...boozing broad who sleeps with anyone. That was the director's idea. Says Newman, who last directed his wife twelve years ago in Rachel, Rachel: "I'm sick and tired of seeing her as a librarian or schoolteacher. I want to show them she's a knockout...