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Shadow opened the festivities in Pnompenh, and it was a tossup whether the credits or the plot were more interesting. The credits were relatively simple: Producer, Norodom Sihanouk; Director, Norodom Sihanouk; Scenario, Norodom Sihanouk; Dialogue, Norodom Sihanouk; Music, Norodom Sihanouk; Star, Norodom Sihanouk. The story line, on the other hand, was a bit more complex...
WITH one week to go in the presidential campaign, Hubert Humphrey's late surge has whittled Republican leads in Pennsylvania, Virginia and Washington to almost nothing and placed several more states in the tossup category. Still, the Democrats cannot claim to have won any new states, and a nationwide survey by TIME correspondents shows that Richard Nixon is likely to carry 29 states commanding 278 Electoral College votes (needed for election: 270 votes...
...American Independent Party ticket. How those casting ballots for Wallace and Curtis LeMay will vote for other offices, nobody knows. Yet their votes could prove decisive in neck-and-neck contests in seven states-Iowa, Maryland, Missouri, Nevada, Ohio, Oklahoma and Oregon. Alaska is also rated a tossup, because of a write-in campaign for 81 -year-old Democratic Senator Ernest Gruening, who was unseated in a primary by Real Estate Developer Mike Gravel. The write-in greatly enhances the hopes of Elmer Rasmuson, Republican mayor of Anchorage. Some significant contests...
...reasonably sound mental processes could possibly choose Brown to beat a Bob Blackman team. But, you say, this is no ordinary Blackman team. Ah, I say, true, the Big Green has trouble, but Brown is as bad as always. In other words, this can't conceivably be called a tossup because Dartmouth never loses and Brown never wins. I'm from Providence: Brown 13, Dartmouth...
...game, rated a tossup, will pit the Crusaders' dangerous backfield against Harvard's solid defense but questionable offense...