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...Final official returns (except Rhode Island, where a handful of absentee ballots remained to be counted), computed last week, showed Republican Dwight Eisenhower with 35,575,420, giving him a plurality of 9,542,354 over Democrat Adlai Stevenson, whose total was 26,033,066. Ike's margin of actual votes was the largest ever awarded a Republican candidate, but still ran second to Franklin Roosevelt's 11,072,014-vote plurality over Republican Alf Landon...
Northeastern, in fact, has lost all its games by about the same 15 to 25 point margin, and should not prove tough competition. A year ago, however, the Huskies also lost six games in a row, but then proceeded to capture eight of their next nine contests...
Junior John Wylde's hat-trick was the winning margin at Watson yesterday as the junior varsity hockey team defeated Providence College...
...Providence junior varsity narrowed the Crimson margin to one goal with a rebound score at 6:35 of the final period. But the J.V.'s took advantage of a Friar penalty to clinch the game with a third goal just over a minute later. Wylde scored this one unassisted on a long shot from the left and then added another at 19:45 on a pass from Tom Crowley...
...Penn-Texas mining properties, is banking on this discontent to pay off at Fairbanks, Morse's next annual meeting, in March. At the last meeting he won four seats on the eleven-man board, with his supporters voted 431,492 shares to management's 836,546. The margin is much closer now. Said Silberstein last week: "I am confident that we and the stockholders opposed to present management now have control of Fairbanks, Morse...