Word: mid-term
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...first congressional race of this mid-term election year, last week's special vote to fill a House vacancy in Pennsylvania's Twelfth District, was widely viewed as an early gauge of Watergate's wallop at the polls. The results turned out to be almost as muddy as the Conemaugh River waters that submerged Johnstown, the district's largest city, in the historic flood of 1889. Barring a reversal in a vote review, the Democrats captured a seat that had been held by the late John P. Saylor, a Republican, for 24 years-hardly an encouraging...
There is also abundant evidence to debunk the fluke election theory. Unidad Popular, the six-party coalition which backed Allende in 1970, won 51 per cent of the votes in the April 1971 municipal elections. Traditionally, ruling parties lose votes in the mid-term congressional elections; in March 1972, Unidad Popular raised its national vote count to 43 per cent of the total electorate. The right, which expected to take 60 per cent of the vote in 1972 began to fear that UP would win with 75 per cent...
...their husbands by death or divorce," the results were predictable. The current Ladies' Home Journal contains a 15,000-word novelette (Dolores) that reads -well, like art imitating life. Pantherlike Dolores Cortez is widowed when her handsome Irish American husband, U.S. President Jimmy Ryan, is struck down in mid-term by a heart attack. Struggling to make ends meet on $30,000 a year, she finally selects her sister's lover, Baron Erick de Savonne, an aging but agile French tycoon. Dolores nets a $10 million marriage contract-but nothing more. On their wedding night, the Baron leaves...
...receive college credit for it. They have registered with one of the 182 colleges and universities affiliated with the program and paid fees ranging from $35 to $45. That entitles them to participate in two discussion classes supervised by a college instructor and to take two tests, one at mid-term and the other at the conclusion of the 20-week course. For an additional $10, credit students receive a kit that includes a record, 50 additional lectures and articles, a study guide and self-tests. They also get a Monopoly-like board game called Future, in which players advance...
...headed by either could not fail to seem somehow less legitimate than one headed by one of a party's two candidates in the previous election. Last week Boston Mayor Kevin White and two Harvard scholars reached into history to propound a fascinating and seemingly workable alternative: a mid-term presidential election...