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...loser, with 36% of the ballot, was the Grenada United Labor Party, led by Sir Eric Gairy, 62, the country's first Prime Minister after independence in 1974 and an eccentric, authoritarian figure whose unsavory political history made his possible comeback a cause of much concern in Washington. G.U.L.P. won the remaining parliamentary seat, but then rejected it, alleging electoral fraud. Gairy offered a novel theory to buttress his charges of cheating. According to him, the ballots had been treated with a special chemical that was able to change votes to favor the winners. "Science and technology today...
Earlier, Sweden's No. 1 player. Mats Wilander, defeated Jimmy Connors, 6-1, 6-3, 6-3. The United States, winner of the Davis Cup a record 28 times and never a loser in five previous Cup matches with Sweden, now must win today's doubles match to stay alive in the best-of-five series...
...record total of 65 women had filed for House seats, 20 of them as incumbents. The general trend of voters to stick with their district legislators had no gender gap; all 20 women were reelected. But few of the challengers were successful. Perhaps the most prominent loser was Elise du Pont, 48, wife of Delaware's Republican Governor, Pierre S. du Pont IV. Her campaign suffered when she came across as rude and whiny in a debate with Incumbent Democrat Thomas Carper, 37. A fiscal conservative, Carper used his folksy manner and personal grass-roots approach...
...anti-intellectual nature of support for the President among voters aged 18-24 is a result of the fact that our generation is the first to live and die by the media eye. We are the first generation raised entirely in a culture that reacts more strongly to "wimp," "loser," and "macho" than to substantive policy discussions, that bases its decisions and learns the news in media bites rather than in in-depth studies, and that is more concerned with style and image than any generation before...
Mondale was undaunted. To his aides, he insisted that the large and buoyant audiences he had been attracting all week were not "loser's crowds." He simply did not believe the polls. He went out the next morning in Cleveland and shouted to a cheering rally of 5,000 people: "The victory march begins here. I can feel it. We're going to win." By week's end, however, he was on the defensive, denying reports that Johnson had told him that Reagan's lead was insurmountable. He was obviously hoping to head off a stream...