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Specifically, Jackson objects to a rule that allows states to require that candidates win at least 20% of the vote in a congressional district to pick up any convention delegates. He would also like to overturn the winner-take-all provisions in seven large states...
...defiant managers running Getty Oil, the cornerstone of the empire built by the late Jean Paul Getty. As the battle developed, both sides resorted to intrigue and duplicity worthy of the Medicis. But late last week, giant Texaco unexpectedly entered the picture and seemed likely to emerge the winner by offering to buy up Getty Oil for about $9.9 billion. The deal, subject to stockholder approval and a green light from Justice Department antitrust lawyers, could be the largest takeover in U.S. history (previous record holder: Du Font's acquisition of Conoco in 1981 for $7.2 billion...
Women's Police Corps, the benefits would be a spruce new look, and maybe even some respect from the male Roman citizenry. The mayor would select the winner. Bravo. Perfetto...
THESE PROVISIONS have drawn overwhelming support from Democrats, but another Hunt innovation has come under increasing attack--the "winner-take-all" system of apportioning delegates, which gives all delegates in an electoral district to the top votegetter rather than awarding them proportionately to several candidates. The Rev. Jesse Jackson lambasts the rule as discriminating against minority voters--but what he fails to acknowledge is that studies show the winner-take-all provisions will also help his candidacy by awarding him all delegates in the nation's many districts which are predominantly minority. In fact, the Hunt Commission, which included several...
DIED. Jimmy Demaret, 73, fun-loving golfer who was the first man to win three Masters titles ('40, '47, '50); apparently of a heart attack; in Houston. The Professional Golfers' Association's top money winner in 1947 (his total: a now laughable $27,936), Demaret often sported garish garb that scandalized sartorially conservative fellow athletes but blazed the fairway trail for today's multihued golfers. Said an admiring Sam Snead of his hard-partying contemporary: "No telling what Jimmy would have done if he'd toed the line and gone...