Word: sams
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...small state could undermine his standing in the polls, which currently give him 58% of the vote. The shift could go in any of a number of directions. McGovern is the most serious threat, though he is still far behind. Campaigning for the conservative vote, Los Angeles Mayor Sam Yorty is given some 3% in the polls, mainly because he is supported by the state's biggest paper, the Manchester Union Leader. Other candidates include Indiana Senator Vance Hartke, who is given .5% by the polls but may win more as he travels about the state in his friendly...
...week before the state convention, a group of Democratic leaders quietly assembled in the Phoenix office of former Governor Sam Goddard. Each of the major presidential candidates had an emissary present. The result of the meeting was a Lindsay-Muskie alliance favoring a change of the convention rules to eliminate fractions in the distribution of delegates. Under the new formula, the delegates would be apportioned on a base of 24, leaving the 25th delegate slot to Arizona Democratic State Chairman Herbert Ely, who professed himself for the present to be uncommitted...
...Senator Sam Ervin, the subcommittee chairman, agreed that press freedom could be curtailed "by exorbitant charges on distribution of materials," and suggested the Postal Service should be considered an essential distribution vehicle "just like the air waves for broadcast media." Democratic Congressman Charles Wilson, a member of the House Post Office Committee, believes a public service like the mails should not be allowed to set rates so high as to limit its use. Said Wilson of the Postal Service: "They've gone hog wild." How many other members of Congress agree remains to be seen...
Ashbrook is not getting too far in New Hampshire. He has the support of ultra-conservative William Loeb's fabled Manchester Union Leader, but lately the paper has been giving more coverage to the fiestier campaign of Los Angeles Mayor Sam Yorty, a Democrat. According to one long-time observer of New Hampshire politics, Ashbrook has given the leadership of his campaign over to the "lunatic fringe" of the state's G.O.P. The polls give him only five per cent of the vote against liberal Pete McCloskey's 12 per cent and Nixon's 69 per cent...
...soon became evident, however, that the foil and epee squads were not to share in the sabre men's success. Sam Anderson and Tatrallyay, in foil and epee, respectively, were the only Harvard point performers to win in the first two rounds...