Word: winner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Other academicians and politicians interviewed by TIME correspondents generally saw no clear winner. "I wouldn't think either man was damaged," said Louis Koenig, professor of government at New York University. Historian Theodore Kovaleff of Barnard College disagreed: "Carter went in a clear leader and he came out looking terribly poor." Asked who won, Northwestern University Political Scientist Louis Masotti replied with a derisive comment on the audio breakdown, "The Luddites," a reference to the early 19th century workers who smashed machines in protest against industrialization. Added Masotti: "Carter came across as a Southern Baptist preacher, and Ford was reciting...
...Langnau, a junior at Michigan State, was widely shared: "I wish I had a prepared sheet of facts. Carter would say one thing and Ford would say another. They can't both be right." At the University of California at Berkeley, Lester Antman, 19, had no difficulty picking a winner. His choice: Panelist Elizabeth Drew. Many students thought they could have done better than either man. Declared University of Virginia Sophomore David Barol: "Ford's attack on Congress was a strong point. I can't understand why Carter didn't point out Ford had been in Congress 25 years...
...Polish-born Kosinski, a National Book Award winner in 1969 for his novel "Steps," said he was honoring the Forum audience with his third public appearance since burrowing into his apartment four months ago to work on his eighth novel, leaving only to "eat lunch in a restaurant and for Operation Sail...
...Providence was declared the winner, but nobody really decided anything about the Harvard-UMass affair. "I think that we would have won," McCurdy said, before admitting that the UMass coach no doubt has the same opinion about the Minutemen...
...Farmer-Labor party that month and it was his practically for the asking. Primary day was September 14, but Loegering, on the strength of the party endorsement, was unopposed. Since June he has been organizing a campaign for the general election in November, in which he will face the winner of the Republican primary, probably Bang...