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...Angeles Mayor Sam Yorty and Ohio Congressman John Ashbrook represent different parties, different generations and different regions, but they have two important things in common. Each is almost universally regarded as a certain loser in his party's New Hampshire presidential primary, and each has the panting support of William Loeb's Manchester Union Leader. Never a piker in his predictions, Publisher Loeb even says that he thinks Yorty will win the Democratic primary...
...theologians and philosophers, including Karl Rahner, Bernard Lonergan and Marxist Ernst Bloch. As a separate unit of McGraw-Hill, Herder & Herder will keep its colophon, expand its religious publishing and enlarge its editorial staff. Though some religious publishers have fallen on bad days, McGraw-Hill did not get a loser: Herder & Herder has been in the black for the past ten years...
...National Football Conference. Griese is the leading passer in the American Football Conference. Now, on the eve of the sixth annual Super Bowl, the two best young quarterbacks in professional football are preparing to establish a crucial difference in their parallel careers: the difference between winner and loser...
...Losers. Islamabad, of course, was the principal loser in the outcome of the war. But there were two others as well. One was the United Nations. The Security Council last week groped desperately toward trying to achieve an international consensus on what to do about the struggle, and ended up with seven cease-fire resolutions that were never acted upon at all. The other loser was Washington, which had tried to bring about a political settlement, but from the New Delhi viewpoint-and to other observers as well -appeared wholeheartedly committed to the support of Pakistan's military dictatorship...
...tone, the U.S. has, 1) destroyed whatever chance it had to be neutral in the East Asian conflict; 2) tended to reinforce the Russia-India, China-Pakistan lineup; 3) seemingly placed itself morally and politically on the side of a particularly brutal regime, which, moreover, is an almost certain loser; and 4) made a shambles of its position on the subcontinent...