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Carter also took most of the liberal vote in Florida. It was a sad-and-sick-and-sunk-amongst-the-sharks liberal vote, but the idea was to stop Wallace, and stop Wallace they did. George Wallace drew only 31 per cent of the Democratic vote, against Carter's 34 in a state where he swamped the field with 42 per cent...

Author: By Thomas S. Blanton, | Title: Death Valley Went for Reagan | 3/13/1976 | See Source »

...eerie purgatory. The patients in the ward, says Heymann, sat "sunk in listless dejection" or "crawled about on their knees or stood on chairs and howled." Eventually transferred to a section for the less disturbed, Pound was allowed to see visitors for two hours a day. They came by the score: Thornton Wilder, Robert Lowell, Katherine Ann Porter, Archibald MacLeish, Marianne Moore, T.S. Eliot. During the last eleven years of Pound's commitment, America's most illustrious literary salon was conducted in a madhouse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poetry and Poison | 3/8/1976 | See Source »

Captain Rick Bengel led the Crimson with 19 points. He was followed by Bob Hooft, who sunk seven field goals for 14 points...

Author: By Daniel Gil, | Title: Elis Halt Freshmen Hoopsters | 3/6/1976 | See Source »

Marty "Bad News" Healy pumped in a dandy top-of-the-key 25-foor jumper during the Classic uprising, then missed a critical scoop lay-up that would have cut the lead to three. But at the other end, Rick Bengal was hacked, sunk a pair of free throws, and heaved a seven-point lead sigh of relief. Bob Hooft's banker in the final seconds padded the spread...

Author: By Jonathan J. Ledecky, | Title: Harvard Freshmen Top Injury-Riddled Classics In IAB Shootout, 72-63 | 2/28/1976 | See Source »

...state Secretary of State's election fee, and came up with the 500 signatures it takes to get on the ballot in each of New Hampshire's two primary districts. The meager 188 votes that Clegg and Packwood earned as a dividend would indicate that American capitalism has sunk even lower than they think...

Author: By Robert T. Garrett, | Title: 'The People Have Spoken, the Fools' | 2/27/1976 | See Source »

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