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...every weekday evening at 6:30 p.m. He is acutely aware that his audience is in the millions and that he is a very strong influence on their opinions. That makes him a powerful man, and he knows it. On election night in NBC's election central control booth, he bragged jokingly that he could get Nixon to concede just by having Chet or David announce that Humphrey had carried California and was now NBC's projected winner...
...some extent their retrospective feelings reveal a degree of reaction which had to be replaced by healthier attitudes. Magaret Booth, once MGM's top editor, says...
...assassin types. Drs. Robert L. Taylor and Alfred E. Weisz noted that of the nine men involved in the eight known attempts on the lives of American Presidents, all were Caucasian males aged 24 to 40. All were smaller than average in stature. All were unknowns, except John Wilkes Booth. Most importantly, "each of these men had some cause or grievance that appeared obsessional, if not delusional, in intensity." (Richard Lawrence, for instance, who tried to kill Andrew Jackson, thought that he was Richard III of England and that the U.S. owed him huge sums of money.) Careful typing might...
Hill, also a senior, holds three Yale records and will smash the scoring mark of the fabled Albie Booth if he gets any points today. Strong (215 lbs.) and fast (a track star in the long jump), Hill has rushed for 588 yards, fourth in the League, and caught 20 passes for 504 yards...
...dominated by one man, the Democratic precinct captain. "A nod from the precinct captain allowed an unregistered voter to vote by merely signing an affidavit. Whether he might vote in another precinct as well would be impossible to determine. Even more remarkable was what happened inside the voting booth. Without asking whether any voter wanted help, the election judge entered the booth with every voter and instructed him to pull the Democratic straight-party lever, breaking the state law. If the voter tarried more than 30 seconds and thus appeared to be splitting his ticket, the judge would reach inside...