Word: standoff
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...Wisconsin primary, he had counted on carrying four populous eastern districts and the delegates-at-large for a minimum of 18½ votes to Hubert Humphrey's 12½ (TIME, Feb. 1). Under the new rules, the same outcome would result in a 15½-15½ vote standoff, effectively neutralizing the Wisconsin delegation to the national convention. Said State Chairman Patrick J. Lucey, a not-so-secret Kennedy supporter: "The change can only be interpreted as an attempt to benefit the candidate of those proposing the formula." Sponsor of the new rules: Committeeman Sam Rizzo, ex-United Auto...
...budget balance. He must soon decide whether to extend the U.S. ban on nuclear testing, which expires at year's end. And Jan. 26 is the day the Taft-Hartley injunction expires in the marathon steel strike (see The Economy), with both sides still at a stubborn standoff...
...seconds remaining to play, the varsity sextet was tied, 5 to 5, by an inferior Yale team at New Haven's Ingalls Rink Saturday night in its last game of the season. With nothing at stake but Harvard's hockey supremacy, unchallenged since the 1951-52 season, the standoff was little better for the Crimson than a defeat...
...Kean of the Crimson should take the high jump, and the pole vault is a standoff between Tom Blodgett and Yale's Jim Anthony. Princeton may provide some opposition in the jumps and pole vault...
...relies too heavily on scraps from the daily press, and often reads as though it were threaded rather than written. And while there is a firmer effort to be objective, the method of quoting both for and against a man or an issue frequently results in a Mexican standoff. And so many people are quoted in an effort to get "behind the mask" of Roosevelt that the reader begins to long for a page of forthright analysis from the historian rather than a mess of scraps from people with masks of their own to keep in place...