Word: winner
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Among the re-elected Republican Senators were Barry Goldwater of Arizona, Robert Packwood of Oregon Charles Mathias Jr. of Maryland and Richard Schweiker of Pennsylvania Jacob Javits of New York was a 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...
...other Nixon defenders to lose were Indiana's David Dennis and Iowa's Wiley Mayne. The waspish Dennis' legalistic fight against impeachment seemed a big factor in his loss, since he had defeated the winner, Ball State University Political Science Professor Philip R. Sharp, twice before, and the area had not gone Democratic since 1958. The articulate Mayne had similarly beaten his opponent, Millionaire Manufacturer Berkley Bedell...
...Poel Allen Ginsberg. The grizzled guru of the '60s then sat down cross-legged before a Manhattan audience of some 200 to celebrate his new book, Allen Verbatim, in verse with harmonium accompaniment Afterward, when asked what he considered the role of the modern poet to be, the winner of the 1973 National Book Award for Poetry replied with a new work titled "Ego Confession." "I want to be known as the most brilliant man on earth," said Ginsberg, "who overthrew the CIA with silent thought ... who sang of blues that made rock stars weep and moved old black...
Harrah, a tall, slim man with a taste for clothes tailored in Beverly Hills and Rome, opened a bingo parlor in Reno in 1937, and has been a winner ever since. One key to his success is that gambling odds inevitably favor the house-a 4% to 7% advantage on slot machines, for example. Still, Harrah takes pains to make losing attractive, like hiring comely college girls as blackjack dealers. But the company's biggest edge is sound management. Harrah's 6,500 employees are organized into 42 departments, which are administered by carefully recruited professional managers. Experts...
...standard in 1967, when she shared top honors with Pinchas Zuckerman in the important Leventritt International Competition in New York City. She was 19. In 1971 Cellist Myung-Wha, then 25, took first place in the Geneva International Competition. Last July, Myung-Whun was second-place winner at the Tchaikovsky International Competition in Moscow, an achievement he quickly followed up with an impressive debut recital in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall two weeks...