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...play it impeccably in any style under any circumstances, whether it is a love song to Rinso White or a complex passage in a Paganini concerto. When the Philharmonic asked him to audition last winter, he breezed through every obscure score that Bernstein thrust upon him, won in a walkaway over 40 aspirants...
...princely sum in Filipino politics, to swamp the country with a deluge of political pamphlets, placards, and tear-jerking biographical movies. But last week, as 8,000,000 Filipinos went to the polls, the election turned out to be not close at all. Marcos won in a walkaway, with a margin of more than 630,000 votes...
...Warren Hearnes, 41, Missouri's Dem-ocratic candidate, scorned his G.O.P. rival Ethan Allen Hitchcock Shepley, 68. Said Hearnes: "He has only one chance to win, and that's if Goldwater is a sensation." Hearnes was right, won in a walkaway over Shepley, former chancellor of St. Louis' prestigious Washington University and the strongest candidate fielded by the G.O.P. in more than a decade. The Governor-elect is a West Point graduate who served ten years in the state legislature and the past four as secretary of state. > Republican John Chafee, 42, won in Rhode Island...
...Crimson is favored over all its opponents this year except Princeton, and none of the matches is likely to be a walkaway. Yale and Dartmouth particularly ought to be very close, and even Columbia should offer more of a challenge than in past years...
...culture and international diplomacy. Adding the political touch to all this explains why Nelson Rockefeller is the hottest new Republican candidate on the U.S. political horizon. It also explains why the race for the nation's top state job, Governor of New York, is turning from a Democratic walkaway into a neck-and-neck sprint...