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...success was particularly evident in the Manchester voting. In 1968, Senator Eugene J. McCarthy got only 22 per cent of the vote here in a two-man race. Tuesday, McGovern received 5693 votes here, narrowly losing the Queen City to Muskie...
President Nixon thus pursues his negotiations with a two-man gerontocracy whose days must be numbered, actuarially if not necessarily in political terms. The passing of either man from the scene could mean an explosive end to China's fragile surface stability-not to mention any und3r-standings that Nixon might bring back from the Communist capital...
Campbell pushed through new rules calling for fines and automatic ejection of the first player to leave the bench for a brawl, as well as any third player who joins a two-man fight-pointedly omitting further penalties for the first two players who start swinging. "We're not against fighting," explains Campbell, a former Rhodes scholar and N.H.L. referee. "It's part of the game. But we are not going to tolerate the senseless spectacle of disorder that tends to turn a game into a farce...
...east-west, black-white. Some 40 per cent of Cleveland's eligible voters are black, and almost all of them reside on the East Side. There is very little interaction across the river in this polarized community. In 1967, and again in 1969, Stokes was elected mayor in close two-man races by carrying a solid 95 per cent of the black vote as well as 18 per cent of the white vote. But despite the fact that three-fourths of the City Councilmen were Democrats, most of them were white who consistently voted against the Mayor...
...Corporation decided in a meeting last November that the professor's grievances were serious enough to warrant further inquiry, and it established a two-man committee of Calkins and Blum to hear the case...