Word: winners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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HEIDI (NBC, 7-9 p.m.). A TV adaptation of Johanna Spyri's classic children's story, filmed in the Swiss Alps and Germany, starring Maximilian Schell, Jean Simmons, Sir Michael Redgrave, Walter Slezak, and Jennifer Edwards as Heidi. Oscar Winner (Marly) Delbert Mann directs...
...Cleveland admitted paternity but won anyway, aided by the opposition's slur that Democrats were the party of "Rum, Romanism and Rebellion." He was again the winner in 1892 against Benjamin Harrison...
...Marcus Morton was elected Governor of Massachusetts by one vote out of 102,066. In the 1916 presidential election, Charles Evans Hughes seemed a certain winner until returns from California two days later gave Woodrow Wilson the state by some 4,000 votes out of the nearly 1,000,000 cast. Less than one vote per precinct could have swung the election to Hughes. In 1960, John Kennedy beat Nixon by only 112,803 popular votes out of 68.8 million. Less than one vote per precinct would have given Nixon a popular victory...
...Dear Republican," begins the cheery letter to Oregon voters, "we have a winner. Bob Packwood is expected to beat Wayne Morse by 28,180 votes." The figure is an invention; the result may not be. Morse, 68, is in real trouble. Lawyer Robert Packwood, 36, the great-grandson of an Oregon pioneer, trailed badly when the race began. Last week he nosed ahead of Morse in a state wide poll commissioned by Portland's Oregonian. Only four-tenths of a percentage point separated the contenders; the outcome now probably hangs on the verdict of a sliver-thin...
...danger exists--though it's remote--that the philosophy of turning from being an inevitable loser to an inevitable winner could become so popular that the election would be unbalanced enough to put Wallace or Humphrey in office. Indeed in such a case, Nixon would have to be called into the alliance by the unofficial umpire of the movement to stalemate the election; activists in California and almost every state west of the Mississippi, taking their cue from the polls, would start pushing Nixon...