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...election-unit whiz, John Thompson, is mystified by Mitofsky's approach. Thompson spends months every year crisscrossing the country, talking to local election officials and learning all he can about each state before picking his precincts. Roy Wetzel, his counterpart at NBC, takes a similar tack. Says Thompson: "Mine is a subjective judgment. I know how to talk to people to get the kind of information I want. Then I put it into the computer...
Eliot followed the South House TD with the closest thing they got to a tally all afternoon. A long kickoff return and SoHo penalty found the Eliot squad deep in South territory with only seven seconds left in the half. Roy "Hands" McLeese snagged an overthrown Gessner pass with a diving lunge, but time ran out as McLeese hit the ground only yards from the end zone...
...showers let up with 20 minutes remaining, but the Crimson was just starting. Roy Roberts powered in from 15 yards, Ed Thompkins intercepted an errant pass on the five, and Bott streaked 30 yards down the sidelines, for Harvard's final three tries...
CRACKERS by Roy Blount Jr. Knopf; 291 pages...
Georgia is a place you get sent to or you come from or you march through or you drive through," writes Roy Blount. "It's got some fine red dirt, hills, vegetables, and folks, but I don't believe anybody has ever dreamed of growing up and moving to Georgia." That includes ex-Atlantan Blount, the sportswriter and humorist whose 1974 About Three Bricks Shy of a Load did for the Pittsburgh Steelers roughly what Sherman did for the South...