Word: standoff
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...first half was all Harvard, the third quarter a standoff and the final period a death spiral for the tiring Crimson. After an opening 30 minutes of intermittent success in which Jim Kubacki put two touchdowns on the board, the Harvard offense slowed to a crawl with nothing but a Mike Lynch 28-yard field goal in the third quarter, and came to a dead stop in the fourth...
...standoff turned up by the survey resulted from asking those polled to choose between the two main candidates. When the Yankelovich analysts figured in the effect of the minor candidates, Lester Maddox and Eugene McCarthy, Ford pulled ahead of Carter by 42% to 40%. Maddox is a negligible factor, polling only 1% of the vote at this point. But McCarthy draws 7%, down from 12% in August but still enough to tip the election to Ford...
...Warning. Whether the experiment would work in Italy was also uncertain; but like an untested drug on a moribund patient, it seemed no worse than the alternative. The election was another Italian standoff. The Christian Democrats, with 39% of the vote, did not emerge with sufficient strength to govern alone; the Communists, with 34%, fell short of what they needed to command a formal role in the government. The Christian Democrats were unwilling to share power formally with the Communists. They were also on warning not to by Western allies, who at an economic summit in Puerto Rico in June...
...pest control. They no longer speak of eradicating insect species: the costs both in dollars and environmental side effects are simply too great, the chances of success too small. What they are after instead is what George Georghiou of the University of California at Riverside calls a Mexican standoff, in which insect depredations could be kept small enough to be acceptable economically...
...kept from power. The Italian party-largest in the West and independently moderate under its popular leader Enrico Berlinguer (TIME cover, June 14)-so worried Western leaders that Secretary of State Henry Kissinger had repeatedly warned Italians against voting Communists into government. Last week Kissinger called the results a standoff and predicted another election within a year. The Vatican, Berlinguer's other relentless foe, was just as concerned. Pope Paul VI last week undertook the revitalization of Catholic lay organizations; their 5 million members were last used politically in the church's anti-Communist battles of the Cold...