Word: rans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tribune found it "as thoughtful and intelligent a political appraisal as we are likely to get this year." The New York Times mulled the proposal over and concluded that it is "intriguing but implausible political speculation." Ted Sorensen decided it was the product of a "Nixon mimeograph machine that ran amuck one night...
Shapiro's probable foe this fall is Cook County Board President, Richard Ogilvie, a Republican who outpolls Daley in his own domain. But Shapiro ran the state at least 50 days a year during Kerner's term, handling mine cave-ins and prison riots; when Kerner was off heading the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, Shapiro was acting Governor for 101 days. He got Chicago through the trauma following Dr. Martin Luther King's death, and has already traveled up and down the state. "I'm gonna campaign," Shapiro said, "because I'm gonna...
...pollsters rose to fame and influence on the basis of two celebrated debacles. During the 1936 presidential campaign, the old Literary Digest ran a mail poll and was wrong, while three more scientific pollsters were right. Those three-George H. Gallup, Elmo Roper and Archibald Crossley-conducted interviews among a predetermined mix of ethnic, income and age groups that seemed representative of the U.S. population. The other turning point was in 1948, when the pollsters again used this "quota system" of sampling-but were wrong. The U.S. had become so complex that picking just the right population...
...last year's 500 Parnelli Jones came within 2 1/2 laps of victory before his gearbox broke down. The rules makers, dismayed at the ease with which the turbine car ran away from the field, placed certain restrictions on turbine power plants...
These are the arguments of desperate men. Pole position winners are seldom race winners at Indianapolis because cars are ran differently for qualifying and for racing. In qualifications, they use special fuel which burns quickly while providing tremendous power boosts for short periods of time. In the race they burn pure alcohol, which lowers speed but increases mileage...