Word: winners
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...pictures of handsome Reagan, Romney, Rockefeller, Percy, Brooke and Hatfield on your cover may suggest to many readers the thought that occurred to me: to be a winner in modern politics, you've got to get the female vote...
Another Ivy title winner, Harvard's cross country team, also did not appear in this year's N.C.A.A. cross-country championships...
...three networks installed elaborate computer systems programmed to digest early returns and forecast winners at the earliest possible moment. At CBS, the setup was VPA (Vote Profile Analysis). NBC offered EVA (Electronic Vote Analysis); ABC produced RSVP (Research Selected Vote Profile). Like wire-service leg men still dedicated to the old-fashioned proposition that beat ing the opposition by a matter of minutes is a major victory, each network was determined to be first to call the winners. Fragmentary returns from key precincts were fed into the computers; comparisons were made with past voting patterns; projections of the uncounted votes...
Doubtful Honors. But did they know? The predictions so confidently made were all too often wrong. Shortly after the polls closed in Maryland, CBS named Democrat George P. Mahoney the new Governor; hours later it became embarrassingly clear that the winner was Republican Spiro Agnew. ABC declared Thomas Lusk the winner in the New Mexico gubernatorial race; later the network had to retract when Lusk lost. NBC earned the doubtful honor of being first to announce that Democrat Lester Maddox had won the race for Governor of Georgia. After the other networks made the same mistake, a beaming Maddox...
Last year, the Eli players' edge was their desire to give retiring coach Jack Marshall a final victory over Harvard. Nothing so dramatic is at stake today, but once again the winner will be decided, not by the system of play, but by which team wants to win the most...