Word: winning
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...citizens who share the dedication to their country that your servicemen do. To be able to raise forces (under the threat of the draft) as professional, responsible and dedicated to the aims of political direction which gives them everything to do the job except authority to win, bodes well for America. If your university faculties and students could be endowed with one-tenth of the patriotic responsibility so evident in your servicemen of all races and skin colors, U.S. leadership in the free world would be unchallenged...
Cynics, of course, would say that Nixon's aim was to win black support in just such a manner. The chances are that they would be wrong in this case. The idea for the party was suggested by Nixon's old New York associate Charles McWhorter, a jazz buff, and Nixon, no jazz fan but the first piano-playing President since Harry Truman, enthusiastically endorsed it. Ellington did not participate in anyone's campaign and, in fact, had not even met Nixon until the day of the party. The traditional political types were not invited...
...perfect voting profile of France in the six previous elections, lost its sole distinction in the seventh by voting 54% in favor of the referendum?almost the mirror opposite of France's 53% rejection. The city of Paris turned down the referendum 56% to 44%, and it could not win a majority even in the chic 7th, 8th and 16th arrondissements, the silk-stocking districts of Paris, and normally solid Gaullist. Women voters, who have made up another Gaullist bastion, gave 10% less than the 70% they mustered in 1962. Finally, and perhaps decisively, the young vote, which has recently...
...back to the subject at hand, Harvard has two contests left on its schedule. The Crimson is favored to beat both Dartmouth and Yale, but in these days of uncertainty, neither win is assured...
...Indians pose a minimal threat as they seek their first league win since 1966. Preseason publications indicated that the Dartmouth objective this spring was improvement, but this improvement has not been realized as yet. The anemic Dartmouth offense has been averaging less than four goals a game...