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...they were not only from New Hampshire but had also been wearing the same clothes all day long -invited their bus driver onto the boat with them. By the time he returned, half his busload had already assembled and were impatiently demanding passage back to Essex. But the Losers had also gotten the bus driver drunk and so, when Mr. Loser boarded the boat for another swing around the harbor, Mrs. Loser led the bus driver off to the nearby sand dunes, leaving one of the chauffeurs to entertain her half-stewed teenage daughter. Meanwhile, the rest of the group...
...Chicago, succumbed early-after his first summer job as a siren-chasing cub reporter for the Holyoke (Mass.) Transcript-Telegram. In 1968, while reporting for seven New England papers, Merrick became a TIME stringer in New Hampshire. "I got to cover the guy who looked like a sure loser-Gene McCarthy," says Merrick. After the primary he was hired as a correspondent...
...lovely loser, of course, was AH MacGraw, whom many figured a shoo-in for the best actress award. To be sure, there were complaints that her performance as Jenny Cavilleri in Love Story wasn't quite up to her Brenda Patimkin in 1969's Goodbye, Columbus. But-by Academy standards-didn't the film deserve a big prize for being one of Hollywood's all time runaway box-office triumphs (well over $30 million so far)? And hadn't Ali's husband, Bob Evans, earned an Oscar or two for his contributions to Paramount...
Company-losing cities have several difficulties in common. All are old as U.S. cities go; all are financially strapped and suffering from a physical decay that urban renewal has attacked but failed to cure. All the loser cities have experienced racial strife along with a rapid increase in their black populations. Businessmen are now simply following the white middle class to suburbia. Understandable as their individual decisions are, they are widening the chasm of race and class in many U.S. metropolitan areas...
...slightly-from 15.9% of the total last year to 17.3% this time. The big winner was Allende's Socialist Party, which stresses its independent Chilean character. The Socialists nearly doubled their share to 22.8%, replacing the Communists as the strongest element within the Popular Unity coalition. The only loser among the three main partners in the ruling coalition was the relatively moderate Radical Party, whose vote dropped from last year's 13% to 8.1%. The conservative National Party's strength dropped sharply to 18.5%. But despite the continuing movement to the left in Chilean politics, the most...