Word: picks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Games are often a society's ritual fantasies. Parker Brothers' Monopoly, for example, was introduced in 1935 as a Depression daydream of striking it rich with hotels on Boardwalk and Park Place. The coming election year has prompted several pick-the-President exercises (TIME, Nov. 8). It is difficult to predict what sociologists, or the Italian-American Civil Rights League, may make of a game called The Godfather -"for All the Families...
...they could win convention delegates whose views are compatible with his own. Party regulars take a generally dim view of such unorthodoxy and because of it, few consider him a serious threat. Yet a Harris poll of the national electorate shows that as a fourth-party candidate McCarthy could pick up 10% of the vote, exactly the divisive probability that could cost the Democrats the White House...
Last week we picked from the heart. Now, with Ivy oblivion the destiny of the Crimson '71, there's nothing left but trying to pick the winners...
HARVARD-BROWN--It's ridiculous to pick between the talent of the two teams. Brown's Zink is capable of throwing for over 300 yards and Bonner could break loose for 100 yards rushing. Eric Crone, too, could click for 300 yds. passing and Rod Foster or Ted DeMars could have a field day on the ground. But Brown can be rotten, and has been most of the season, and Harvard had its most boring performance of the year just seven days ago. Who knows...
...have sent workers of mine to organize non-primary states. I hope to control the caucus and delegates to the national convention," he said, adding, "my primary goal is to write the platform and pick the candidate...