Word: winners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...contest attracted more than the usual attention this year, because last year the judges refused to choose a winner on the grounds that none of the contestants was good enough...
...report, the commission termed the present system "archaic, undemocratic, complex, ambiguous, indirect, and dangerous," noting that a person can become president with fewer popular votes than his major opponent. This is because the "winner-take-all" system gives each state's entire electoral vote to the leading candidate...
Such a system, he said, "would tend to diminish the importance of cohesive minority blocks in large states, which would not then be the great prize of the present. Thus, by eliminating the "winner-take-all" principle and thereby increasing the importance of all votes, direct election would "stimulate opposition parties in present one-party states...
...panel could only judge "on the basis of what was played at this audition." He said some of the musicians had been "irresponsible" by not preparing adequately, but stressed that "a great deal of talent was shown, although no one lived up to the standards required to be a winner...
Daniel K. Eilar '67, vice president of HRO and also a contestant, pointed out that responsibility for the decision rested with the judges and had little to do with the HRO itself. He was "disappointed that there was no winner," but felt that the decision of the judges was justified...