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...danger of this complacent faith in the First Amendment became apparent last week in the aftermath of the lowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary. The House Telecommunications Subcommittee has been holding hearings this year concerning the effect of TV projections on final vote tallies. The problem first received widespread attention after the 1980 Presidential contest, when President Jimmy Carter's early concession prompted as much as two per cent of the Western electorate to stay home, according to several studies. Although this probably didn't cause Carter's defeat, the results of state-level contests may have been decisively...
This alleged distortion of election returns is what the Telecommunications Subcommittee has been studying. The chairman. Rep. Timothy E. Wirth (D-Colo.), sent a letter after the February 20 lowa caucuses to the presidents of the three major networks. In the letter, Wirth recommended that the networks show "restraint" in broadcasting election results before voters have cast their ballots. He also invited the network presidents to testify at hearings on the Monday preceding the New Hampshire primary, and the networks each sent a representative...
John C. Culver '54, a former Senator from lowa, countered that Mudd's idea was unrealistic, because Congressmen would prepare speeches far in advance, making it "tough to get spontaneity and integrity...
Discussing the accord, theologians on the panel spoke of reaching a new tolerance for each other's views. H. George Anderson, co-chairman of the talks and president of lowa's Luther College, said that for Lutherans justification remains "the template, the pattern of how God and man relate. For Catholics, it is one doctrine among many." More basic, the Catholics on the panel assured the Lutherans that they believed that good works alone could not bring salvation, while the Lutherans declared that their emphasis upon faith and God's grace did not mean they rejected...
Only rarely do universities make that commitment Alabama has a dynasty in football. UCLA in basketball, lowa in wrestling, and Harvard in crew...