Word: picks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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NIXON made two fantastic tactical blunders-he approved the 18-year-old vote and the new registration provisions," happily declared Fred Dutton, one of George McGovern's key strategists, last spring. Those moves, Dutton reasoned, would enable McGovern to pick up a net gain of some 13 million youthful voters over the Republicans and provide the margin of victory against Richard Nixon in November. Last week Dutton and the entire McGovern campaign received another rude jolt from the polls. George Gallup reported that those millions of young voters actually favor the re-election of President Nixon by an astounding...
...multinational gerontocracy of the wealthy sportsmen who run the I.O.C. has never been particularly noted for collective brilliance. As the competitors tried to pick up the shards of the Olympiad, the committee members seemed to outdo themselves in demonstrating their skill at letter-of-the-law Pecksniffepy. Unfortunately for the U.S. team, the brunt of their questionable decisions was borne by American athletes, who were deprived of at least one, and possibly three gold medals...
Seagren had to go into the finals with an unfamiliar (and visibly stiffer) pole. Straining and pressing for all he was worth, he failed in three attempts to clear 17 ft. 10½ in. Wolfgang Nordwig of East Germany topped 18 ft. ½ in. to pick up the gold medal, leaving Seagren fuming with a silver. The usually easygoing U.S. vaulter thrust the pole into the hands of an I.A.A.F. official and turned away angrily from Nordwig's extended hand. Seagren returned to shake hands, but his anger was scarcely concealed. "The only difference between the pole...
...baseball. Loyal Park doesn't seem to have many woes either. He generally gets the pick of Boston area diamond stars to go with some pretty classy performers from the rest of the country. Last spring Harvard won the Eastern League title. Prospects for this year look at least that good, and with a pitcher of Roz Brayton's calibre. Park is in pretty good shape for the coming season...
...First of all, I'd just gotten out of the convention on August 30th. While George had problems from the 15th of July up til now, he had time to get mailings out, to pick state coordinators, to set up labor committees, and to prepare his media--I hadn't done any media by this time. We came out of the convention a million dollars in debt...