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...down on Giscard at 6:30 p.m. on election Sunday with the insistent ringing of a telephone at the family's chateau de Varvasse in the village of Chanonat (pop. 850). Campaign Manager Jean-François Deniau had some bad tidings: early computer projections showed Giscard a loser by 4%. (The final official tally: 15,714,598, or 51.76%, for Mitterrand; 14,647,787, or 48.24%, for Giscard.) By 8:20 p.m., shortly after the results were made public, the Elysçe released a terse statement in which Giscard expressed his "wishes"-nothing warmer -to his successor...
...Twenty-three years of government by the same center-right majority had proved too much. As if they had been dared once too often to take the risk, French voters this week chose Socialist Leader François Mitterrand, 64, an unflappable veteran politician whom many thought a perennial loser, as the fourth President of the Fifth Republic. They thus embarked on the country's boldest venture toward the left since 1936, setting the stage for a risky economic transformation...
...Louis Cardinals, off to their best start in 35 years, and six in a row for the ever underprivileged White Sox, who have just added three certified all-stars-Ron Le Flore, Carlton Fisk and Greg Luzinski-to an all-pitch, no-hit team. Kansas City, the loser in last fall's World Series, is in last place in the American League West, and an aging Los Angeles Dodger team that had the experts shaking their heads in the off season jumped out to a 14-5 record, the best spring since the team left Brooklyn 24 years...
...opener. Harvard's Donnie Allard and vinnie Martelli continued their assults on the Crimson record for runs batted in in a season--Mike Stenhouse's 40 in 1977--in the second game. With Harvard leading, 4-1, in the fifth. Martelli lined a single off Dartmouth's starter and loser, Brian Hebert to knock in two runs...
...being effectively challenged from both the left and the right. On the left, his closest rival, perennial Socialist Candidate François Mitterrand, 64, a narrow loser in the presidential election of 1974 and parliamentary vote of 1978, has been gnawing away at Giscard's centrist support. Behind him, Communist Candidate Georges Marchais, 60, is fighting to improve on the 20.55% his party obtained in 1978. On the right, Paris Mayor Jacques Chirac, 48, leader of the Neo-Gaullists, has made surprising advances among conservatives and suddenly emerged as a still unlikely, but just possible, second-round challenger...