Word: perring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although he came in last in the three-cornered race, McCarthy ran very strong. Last weekend, he stated that he would consider 25 per cent of the Indiana vote a victory...
Combined with the fourth-course pass-fail plan the Faculty approved last Fall, yesterday's action will give almost every student in the College the option of taking one of his four courses without a grade. But the pass-fail legislation set a limit of one ungraded course per term, so no one will be able to take both a pass-fail course and an Independent Study at the same time...
Senator Robert F. Kennedy appeared to have won a second victory last night. A slate of delegates committed to him led with 60 per cent of the vote in the District of Columbia with partial returns from 128 precincts. Two other slates, both supporting Vice-President Hubert H. Humphrey, split the remaining 40 per cent...
...With 73 per cent of the vote counted, Kennedy, with 42 per cent, led Branigin, with 30, and McCarthy, with 28. Former Vice President Richard M. Nixon, running uncontested in the Republican primary, had 392,098 votes at that time. No write-ins were permitted...
Kennedy had hoped to take more than 45 per cent of the vote in the three-way fight. A vote of over 50 per cent would have seriously injured McCarthy's chances for the nomination and would have thrown a cog in Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey's delegate-gathering bandwagon...