Word: marginals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...RCCC) Clem is clearly the youth candidate on the ticket. That doesn't necessarily mean he is inexperienced in Cambridge politics. Although he didn't grow up in Cambridge, Clem is already a fixture in Cambridgeport, where he hopes to cut into incumbent Daniel J. Clinton's home-turf margin. And Clem is not lacking in support from the Harvard Square area, having tickled the collective fancy of the ritzy Brattle...
When the smoke cleared from last year's long ballot counting, Francis H. Duehay '55, had just managed to eke out a seat on the Cambridge City Council. The small margin--just a few more than 90 votes--came as a surprise to an incumbent and one-time leader in Cambridge School Committee voting...
When the campaign ended last week, the old style had hung on, but by a margin so slim that it left the government with an uncertain mandate. Ecevit, whose Republican People's Party favors bigger social welfare programs and a strongly nationalist foreign policy, racked up big majorities in Ankara, Istanbul and other big cities. But Premier Demirel's support of free enterprise and his appeal to traditional religious values carried the normally conservative rural areas and older voters...
...hitter. The pitcher, Cincinnati Southpaw Don Gullett, 24, fired the ball with such velocity that he retired 16 consecutive Red Sox batters in one stretch. Meanwhile Reds First Baseman Tony Perez, 33, who had gone hitless in the Series, cracked two home runs over the leftfield wall. The final margin: Reds...
...congressional action on which last week's moves depended came after delays that the Administration had not foreseen. The House, by a 341-69 vote, approved the congressional resolution that the White House had requested; one day later, the Senate agreed by a 70-18 margin. The overwhelming votes were deceiving; the resolution had been held back by sharp attacks from Kissinger's congressional critics and outside experts like former Under Secretary of State George Ball, who argued that Kissinger's step-by-step approach hindered an overall peace settlement more than it helped. Nonetheless, Ball urged...