Word: winners
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...George Wallace instead. This switch was decided for them by Dr. Lloyd W. Bailey, a physician from Rocky Mount and one of 13 electors chosen by the state's voters to reflect their choice. By tradition, all the electoral votes should have gone automatically to Richard Nixon as winner of a plurality of the state's popular vote. Rather than ratify the Republican victory, however, Bailey, a loyal John Bircher, handed over one-thirteenth of the total votes to Wallace, because, as he put it: "Nixon has already clearly shown to us that we are going to have...
...reason for their unusual act was not, of course, to gain another superfluous electoral vote for Richard Nixon. In the last election, the fear was that George Wallace would deprive both the other candidates of an electoral majority, leaving him free to decide a winner by bargaining with his votes. By challenging Bailey's vote, O'Hara and Muskie hoped, in the latter's words, to "underscore the necessity for a complete reform of the system by constitutional amendment...
...seven epee contests. Captain Ron Winfield, Larry Cetrulo, Tony Abbott and Pat Pankhurst all won two events in the sabre. Pankhurst had the only loss in this weaponclass against M.I.T. Winfield and Cetrulo have won consistently for Harvard all season. In the foil Tom Keller was the only double winner as Tom Mistick, Sam Fouts, Cliff Ruderman, and Art Weissman each took one foil...
Tournament of Noses. The President-elect became an impassioned, if studiedly neutral fan inside Pasadena's huge stadium, despite the fact that Pat Nixon is a graduate of the Pacific Eight champion, Southern Cal. He leaped to his feet when Heisman Trophy Winner O. J. Simpson took off on his 80-yard touchdown run and summoned with rapid gestures his own version of instant replay for the benefit of former Oklahoma Football Coach Bud Wilkinson, who sat on Nixon's right. A reporter inquired if Nixon was attending his first Rose Bowl game...
...keep Coach Woody Hayes' Rose Bowl record perfect (3-0) last week, his youngsters had to fight from behind. Heisman Trophy Winner O. J. Simpson shocked them with a stunning 80-yd. dash in the second quarter, to give U.S.C. a 10-0 lead. In making his break away run, Simpson squeezed through a closing hole at his own left tackle, then showed Ohio State some of the swiftest acceleration and one of the greatest change-of-direction cuts ever seen on any football field. He broke to his right, outran the Ohio State secondary and tore down...