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...player can develop an impeccable technical style, if he can add to it a deceptive craftiness and sharpen it with a killer instinct, and if his legs and reflexes hold up, he can match younger, quicker opponents until he is well past 30, and still come out a champion. Tilden, Budge, and Gonzales all dominated professional tennis, but few have brought to the game such well-balanced excellence and natural panache as Australian Rod Laver, and none have ever reaped the financial rewards that modern pro tennis has, and will, give him, for being the best player in the world...
...Your excellent Essay [Sept. 20] concerning the failings of our Electoral College was most pointed, as far as it went. You cited three presidential elections, those of Jefferson-Burr, Clay-Adams-Jackson-Crawford and Hayes-Tilden, to illustrate your indictment of the college's utility. It is of interest that two of these elections and perhaps the course of American history were decided in each instance by the margin of a single vote. Adams won by the vote of General Stephen Van Rensselaer and Hayes by the 8-to-7 vote of an electoral commission that awarded...
Jackson's arguments against the process came back to life in 1876, when New York's Democratic Governor Samuel J. Tilden won the popular presidential vote with 4,287,670 ballots (50.9%). Even so, a special commission awarded the electoral votes of four disputed states to his opponent, Ohio's Republican Governor Rutherford B. Hayes, who thereupon squeaked into the White House by one electoral vote. Newspapers promptly pilloried Hayes as "His Fraudulency...
Nearly a century ago, Sam Tilden made light of his electoral loss by saying: "I shall receive from posterity the credit of having been elected to the highest position in the gift of the people, without any of the cares and responsibilities of the office." It is doubtful if a loser in one of today's superheated campaigns would be so graceful-or indeed whether a minority President like Adams or Hayes could deal with Congress or the world on so minuscule a mandate. Both Harry Truman in 1948 (with 49.6% of the popular vote) and John Kennedy...
Princeton has two proven runners, captain Al Andreini and Tilden Reeder, and a couple of improving sophomores, Rich Stafford and Eamon Downey. But, unlike Harvard, the Tigers don't have much beyond their first...