Word: upset
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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This striking reversal of public opinion was uncovered in two surveys conducted for TIME by the research firm of Yankelovich, Skelly & White. The first poll was taken March 19 and 20, the second on March 29 and 30, thus bracketing President Carter's upset losses in the New York and Connecticut primaries.* In the second survey, 44% of those questioned preferred Reagan for President, 43% Carter, and 13% were undecided...
...time being. At the White House on primary night, the first problem was how to tell the President that he had been soundly defeated. Said an aide: "Thank God we had him prepared, or it would have been very unpleasant breaking the news." The President was still upset. Said Jody Powell, with what sounded like a hint of understatement: "He is a graceful loser, but he is not a good loser. He was not at all happy...
...traumatic as the upset was for Boeing, however, it was equally painful for the city of Seattle. With the Puget Sound's largest single employer facing ruin and the tarmac at Boeing's Everett assembly plant, the biggest such plane factory in the world, choked with unsold jumbo jets, Seattle's entire economy went into a slump. A grimly cynical highway billboard on a road heading out of town summed up the prevailing gloom: "Will the last person leaving Seattle please turn out the lights...
...touted teams were upset. The nation's No. 1-ranked school, DePaul, which went into the championships with a 26-1 record, was toppled in its very first game, by a renascent U.C.L.A. North Carolina (21-7), a perennial power in the proud Atlantic Coast Conference, was whipped in its opening duel, by lowly Texas A.&M. Bad Bobby Knight's oh so good Indiana team, Big Ten champion, fell to Purdue. Duke, which was sixth in the A.C.C. standings, rose up to beat Kentucky, flagship of the Southeastern Conference...
...Star Political Writer James Dickenson, and he has plenty of company in the press. Never have the nation's newspapers, newsmagazines, networks and wire services had so much trouble fathoming what is on the electorate's mind. As the presidential campaign rolled on in weekly installments, surprise, upset and the unexpected have been the bulletins of the day. Often nobody got it right in advance; the unlucky were those who got it wrong out front where everybody could read it or hear...