Word: totals
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...world that this faithful reader has made an epochal invention, the minus vote. In addition to the plus vote that every voter already has to vote for a candidate, he will now be given a minus vote to be used against a candidate. At the election, the total of a candidate's minus votes will be deducted from that of his plus votes. In this way, if a voter cannot favor any candidate, he can at least cast a ballot against the one he likes least. Too bad this solution comes too late for the November election...
...crop of its own. The latest polls give Richard Nixon a 2-to-l lead over Hubert Humphrey. The GOP also has hopes of capturing the Governor's mansion, both state houses, and six of Iowa's seven seats in the House of Representatives. To avert a total rout, dejected Democrats are looking to a lone champion, Governor Harold E. Hughes, 46, a craggy-jawed former truck driver who is battling hard to avoid being buried under an anti-Democratic avalanche...
...York lawyer argues that even Nelson Rockefeller could wind up in the White House. This theory has a bizarre plausibility. Assume that Wallace carries only four Deep South states with a combined total of less than 43 electoral votes. As one result, both Nixon and Humphrey fail to gain the needed 270 majority in the Electoral College. As another, New York's 43 electors-chosen under Nixon's G.O.P. banner but not constitutionally bound to vote for him-revive old loyalties, cast their ballots for Rockefeller. Heeding the Constitution, the Electoral College sends the names of Nixon, Humphrey...
...anything, Southern Cal's O.J. Simpson boasts even more dramatic statistics. Molded in the slums of San Francisco's Portrero Hill district, he was unheralded until he turned up at the City College of San Francisco, where in two years he scored a grand total of 54 touchdowns. He went to Southern Cal last year as a junior, and he wasted no time. In an awesome display of speed and power, O.J. led the country in rushing (with 1,415 yds. in 266 carries), scored both touchdowns in the Trojans' 14-3 victory over Indiana...
Another issue calling for prompt action concerns the Viet Nam war. Nine suits brought by a total of some 489 reservists seek to have the court declare unconstitutional the 1966 Act of Congress under which they were ordered to Viet Nam. They claim, in part, that Congress cannot give the President such powers in the absence of a formal declaration of war or a national emergency. Justice Douglas ordered a delay in their departure to Asia. But the court majority, which has been reluctant to decide issues involving the legality of the war, is not likely to find much merit...