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...fairly comfortable winner; he received 45% of the vote in his race against former Attorney General Ramsey Clark, the Democratic nominee, who drew 39%, and Conservative Party Candidate Barbara Keating, who got 15%. Robert Dole of Kansas, who was Republican National Chairman in 1972, won by a whisker. Four months ago Dole thought he was "down the tube." But he managed to beat Obstetrician William Roy (by about 2%), with the help of a Manhattan political-research firm and a Boston advertising agency. A TV commercial showed a Dole poster with mud being thrown at it, then the mud miraculously...
...needs no underscoring, but to see so many of them together is to be dazzled −and then to be struck again by the fact that many are not so much names as implied biographies. What else needs to be said about a soldier called Captain the Hon. Fitz-Whisker Fiercy, or a chauvinist U.S. Congressman called the Hon. Elijah Pogram...
...heart stopper in the final period, as Harvard scored three goals and came a whisker away from a fourth in the last minute. Following Mike Eruzione's tally that proved to be the game winner at 8:32, Levy Byrd discovered a chink in Walsh's armor. His weak shot dribbled between the Terrier goaltender's legs and the crowd and the team came alive...
...white magician who made all this possible was an Oxford professor of Old and Middle English, John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, who died last week at the age of 8 1 . Knowing that an imaginary world must be realistically equipped down to the last whisker of the last monster, Tolkien put close to 20 years into the creation of Middle-earth, the three-volume Lord of the Rings and its predecessor, The Hobbit (1938). He also equipped readers with 157 pages of history, appendixes, indexes, tables of consanguinity, and philologically impeccable notes on all the languages, including Elvish and Sindarin, spoken...
...irony of tonight's game will be that Durno came within a whisker of sitting on the Cornell side of the rink. Coming from Niagara Falls, Canada, where Cornell has a big "in", Bruce naturally applied to Cornell. "I never even considered Harvard," he said, "because I never thought I would have a chance...