Word: won
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...prize to be won exactly a year from now, on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November of 1980, is, of course, the presidency of the U.S. And the struggle for that prize promises to be extraordinarily long, expensive, bitter and important. There are many reasons for this, one being that the holder of the crown, President Jimmy Carter, intends to keep it and very much wants to govern until...
...circumstances and as a result of an unsure style of leadership, Carter fell to levels of popularity lower than any other President in the history of polling, despite the absence of any major scandal in his Administration or any international catastrophe. His restrained and at times erratic performance has won him neither personal nor ideological devotion. His political weakness has attracted a large number of challengers in the Republican Party. More important, it has drawn onto the field a reluctant Senator Edward M. Kennedy, the flawed heir of Camelot...
...week's end, Bush also demonstrated that he may be a better stump speaker than Baker. Both candidates showed up at a G.O.P. forum in Portland, Me., where Bush won so much support with a blood-stirring campaign speech that he narrowly upset Baker in a presidential straw vote. The Tennessean had been expected to win because he had the backing of the state's popular Republican Senator William Cohen. Baker cannot afford many more such defeats if he is to build the kind of national consensus that he has so skillfully crafted in the Senate...
BROWN at DARTMOUTH--The Ivy game of the week brings together two of the Northeast's most worthless cities. Still, the football will be superb, though a fine day from Dave Shula won't be enough: Brown 20, Dartmouth...
Harvard's Paula Newnham, winner of last year's Ivy meet, won't be running today because of a foot injury that has kept her idle for most of this season. Newnham's injury makes Princeton's Lynn Jennings the one to beat, which will be no easy task. Jennings, second in last year's Ivies, recently placed first in the Easterns and has consistently led the Tiger squad...