Word: marginal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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President Dwight D. Eisenhower carried Wednesday's University election poll by 148 votes out of 5,552 cast, beating Adlai E. Stevenson by 2,785 to 2,637. The President's largest strength came from the Business School, where he won by a 3-to-1 margin...
Polling, which closed in the Houses, Radcliffe, and the graduate schools on Wednesday, continued through yesterday noon at the Union. Eisenhower's margin among Freshmen...
...School was strongly for Stevenson, but his margin was less than it had been in 1952. This year Stevenson carried it by 576 to 473, where four years ago his margin was 573 to 300. At that time, the Business School gave Eisenhower 240 out of 313 votes cast...
Narrow as it is, the Eisenhower margin in twelve polls sponsored by the CRIMSON represents the tenth Republican victory since the turn of the century. In 1912 Woodrow Wilson won against a combined field of Theodore Roosevelt '80 cluding Radcliffe--by a bare majority. and William Howard Taft, and in 1952 Stevenson carried the University...
...pressure was neutralized during his six years of Congress by the demands of his liberally-oriented district in Manhattan. But in the race for the Senate, Javits must cater to the conservative voters in up-state New York. To win the election, Javits will probably need an up-state margin of 600,000. And so he has embraced Nixon, supported Dulles, and stood firmly behing Benson and Wilson...