Word: marginals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...days before last week's primary, and at that he had to divide his time between Indiana and neighboring Ohio. Humphrey squeaked through, winning 47% of the vote to Wallace's 42%. Wallace was helped by a heavy Republican crossover vote. Humphrey had a 38,000-vote margin in the popular vote, with most of his edge coming from Indianapolis and Gary, which have the state's heaviest concentrations of blacks...
...disenchantment." Another term at the Alabama Governor's Montgomery headquarters is "protracted politics"-not a bad description of Wallace's dogged, divisive presidential candidacy, now making its third appearance in eight years. Whatever it is, it is working: Hubert Humphrey edged him by a scant 5% margin in Indiana; George McGovern has carefully ducked him in Florida and Michigan, where busing is a hot issue; Scoop Jackson could never catch fire once Wallace got going. Wallace won last week's Tennessee primary two to one, and at week's end looked like a big winner over...
...touted as a powerful Princeton contingent. The Crimson took very little time to prove that, when the pressure is on. Princeton's lights are paper tigers of the highest order. Under ideal conditions on the Charles, Harvard left the Tigers far behind, winning by 8.9 seconds--a two-length margin, Harvard rowed a 6:02, recording the Crimson's fastest time of the season...
Harvard opened up a little over a length margin on the Middies before a Navy sprint closed the gap back to three-quarters of a length. Harvard sprinted after the Navy crew brought the stroke up, but when it did the Crimson pulled away to its final margin of over a length...
...Nebraska, with 20 per cent of the vote counted, Humphrey was leading the favored McGovern by a margin of 38 to 35 per cent. Wallace trailed with about 15 per cent of the vote. However, ABC projected that McGovern would escape with a narrow win in Nebraska...