Word: cbs
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...clock. Nixon winged ahead in early-bird returns scattered east of the Rockies (he led 2 to 1 in Kansas alone). But barely had the ABC and CBS electronic brains prematurely predicted a G.O.P. sweep than the Republicans conceded Connecticut by some 90,000-a magic figure that Democrats read as a sure sign of a sweep in the big marathon industrial states. But perhaps some of the Connecticut vote for Kennedy was sheer neighborliness...
...When Associated Press gave Michigan to Kennedy, CBS boosted the Senator's electoral-vote total to 285, more than enough to get him into the White House. But CBS was assuming that Illinois' 27 votes would go to Kennedy, and, hour by hour, his lead there was dwindling away until it stood at a mere 46,000. If Kennedy lost Illinois, his last big chance to clinch the election was California. But even there, with half of the state still to be tallied, Kennedy was just plugging along in front by 80,000. Dawn was beginning to break...
...Kintner called his news staff together on election eve, gave them a rock 'em, roll 'em fight talk. "Men, you may think this election is a contest between Kennedy and Nixon." Coach Kintner thundered, "It's not. It's a race between NBC and CBS...
Wanted - Dead or Alive (CBS, 8:30-9 p.m.). The women rebel against gunplay in an unlikely western updating of Aristophanes' Lysistrata...
Armstrong Circle Theater (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Douglas Edwards narrates "The Antique Swindle" - an expose of the purveyors of underaged Chippendale...