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...convincing three-goal victory established the Crimson as odds-on favorite to grab its first Ivy League crown since 1970. But other league contenders--notably Cornell (which played Princeton to a 1-1 tie over the weekend) and Brown (a 1-0 loser to Yale)--will have their sights set on the Ancient Eight's new frontrunner...
...script was vaguely familiar: voting in a bloc, a racial minority upsets a smooth-talking, politically connected shoo-in. This time, though, both candidates were black and the minority vote was white. The well-connected loser in the Democratic primary runoff in Atlanta's Fifth Congressional District was State Senator Julian Bond, a founder of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. The winner: former City Councilman John Lewis, onetime S.N.C.C. chairman, who outhustled his former ally to beat him 52% to 48% after finishing a distant second in last month's primary...
...major trouble spot lies in the early morning hours, a significant profit center for two of the three networks but an estimated $12 million-a- year loser for CBS. From Charles Kuralt through Maria Shriver and Forrest Sawyer, the network has tried countless hosts and formats in an effort to boost the Morning News audience. In May CBS brought in Susan Winston, the former producer of ABC's Good Morning America, to come up with an entirely new format for the show. Her ideas for a city-hopping program with multiple hosts (among the names proposed: Frank Gifford, Connie Chung...
...that solidifies his status as clear front runner. And ! Robertson did well enough to establish himself as a real factor, though not a credible contender for the nomination. Kemp seems to have done about as well as Robertson, but that may have made him the big loser. In fact the real winners may have been those who did not run, such as Robert Dole, Paul Laxalt and Howard Baker...
...biggest loser in the shuffle was former Deputy Prime Minister Erik Nielsen. The intensely partisan Nielsen was replaced by former Transportation Minister Donald Frank Mazankowski, who is much less contentious...