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...Crimson, by virtue of its second-place finish in the regular season, would be a shoo-in for the second spot by earning a matchup Saturday with RPI, the regular-season champion and currently the top-ranked team in the nation...
...stands an excellent chance of being named the ECAC Player of the Year when that award is presented on March 14, and is a shoo-in to be named to the league all-star team...
Carribino, a shoo-in to become only the second player in Harvard history to repeat as a first-team All-Ivy selection, is averaging 21.3 points per game so far this season. That would place him fourth on the Crimson single season scoring list, behind only Fitzsimmons, Keith Sedlacek and himself...
...Southern seats. Tennessee's Albert Gore Jr., 36, whose father served three influential terms in the Senate, was an easy victor over a weak Republican candidate. West Virginia's John D. ("Jay") Rockefeller IV, 47, also faced a wobbly Republican opponent and had also been considered a shoo-in; yet TV network-news polls reported early Tuesday evening that Republican Businessman John R. Raese was winning. Rockefeller ended up winning by a margin of 4%. "I saw the Reagan coattails coming," declared Rockefeller, who lost his first gubernatorial election in the 1972 Nixon landslide...
After 16 years in West Virginia politics, Democrat Jay Rockefeller no longer has to worry about his state's voters rejecting him as a rich-kid carpetbagger from New York and Harvard. And, with two solid terms as Governor, he should be a shoo-in to fill the seat of retiring Democratic Senator Jennings Randolph. So why is Rockefeller running so hard? Because he remembers 1972 and the last G.O.P. landslide. "I went through the McGovern year," he says of his initial, unsuccessful run for Governor. "The coattail effect this year, the potential for a Reagan victory, is something...