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...past one hundred years, this representative state has only twice--in 1884 and 1916--voted with the loser in a Presidential election. And 1964 should be no different. Lyndon Johnson will probably carry Illinois, one of Barry Goldwater's "must" states, by at least a 60-40 margin. What makes Illinois interesting this year is not the LBJ landslide but the defeat which incumbent Governor Otto Kerner may inflict on Charles Percy, darling of liberal Republicans and Presidential hopeful...
Then again, it may be that Sartre has been sitting around like an ugly toad since 1957 walling for the opportunity to spit at the Nobel Prize Committee. Albert Camus was their selection that year. Is Sartre just a poor loser? It seems hard to believe, for he had a deep respect for Camus. Besides Sartre has had Simone, a series of best-sellers, and seven years to recover. Now when the honor which was sooner or later to be his has come it seems a rather ineffectual and stupid gesture to refuse. Peter R. Berreill...
Olympic President Avery Brundage had tears in his eyes when he draped the gold medal around Mills's neck. And then someone asked Loser Clarke: "In your prerace planning did you worry about Mills?" "Worry about him?" said Clarke. "I never heard...
...nationwide appearances that will earn her $75,000, in addition to the $11,000 in scholarships she will use next fall at the State University. The other girls were already on their way back to school. But from their pictures with Her Loveliness, it was clear that even a loser in Atlantic City is a winner on any campus...
...Frustrations. But Dark is also a bitter loser, who cannot abide-and cannot keep quiet about-bad base running, missed signals and halfway efforts. This year, with a team that might well have run away from the league, his frustrations have boiled over. He has clashed openly with several players-particularly Puerto Rican First Baseman Orlando Cepeda, who runs the bases as if he were treading molasses, and Negro Leftfielder Willie McCovey, who is hitting barely over .200 when Dark figures he should be batting...