Word: phoned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite numerous letters and phone calls from Dartmouth head football coach Bob Blackman, Cramer decided to go to Harvard. "If I'd been interested strickly in football," he says, "I would have probably gone to Dartmouth...
...prediction, I look up the names of the Presidents of the various universities, find the same name (or the same first name if there's no last name) in any one of the four Boston area telephone books and award the game to the team whose President's name phone number starts with the higher digit. The predicted score then is calculated on an IBM computer in our bathroom...
...Radcliffe students complained of the treatment they received at the jail. "They didn't tell us our rights," one girl said, "and tried to get us to tell them more than we had to by saying we couldn't make any phone calls if we didn't give them information." Another said she was told she could use the phone later and was never given the opportunity...
Victory assured, Nixon finally appeared at midday before hardy workers who had stayed through the night at the Waldorf and informed them that he had just been on the phone with Humphrey. One of the things he told the Vice President, he said, was that "I know how it is to lose a close one." With a pledge to Americans that he would seek to "bring us together," he departed for Key Biscayne, Fla., and three days of recuperation from the campaign's rigors...
...relatively spry 60. He could run for reelection to the New York governorship in 1971, and in 1972 bid again to make the presidential race. Charles Percy bet so heavily on Rocky in Miami Beach that Nixon actually hung up on him in the middle of a furious phone conversation. A Nixon landslide would have left Percy in political limbo. As it is, the G.O.P.'s narrower victory improves Percy's chances somewhat, but not much; he may have trouble mustering support for re-election to the Senate in 1972 from Illinois Republicans of a less liberal stripe...