counting on the old order of Chicago elections, which

counting on the old order of Chicago elections, which sometimes reflected Mayor Dailey's belief that every person, citizen of Chicago, if not of Illinois, who was also a Democrat had a natural right ( within the range of the three score years and ten allotted by Scripture) to vote in at least 12 Presidential elections and 24 or 25 gubernatorial elections, and that the number of votes remaining unused, when some Democrat's life was prematurely shortened, could be voted post mortem by the par'v.

In the third, and more subjective area of competition, no clear superiority of one network over the others was demonstrated. Over-all, the general judgment was that, in the metophor of football. CBS had had the best offense, NBC the best defense, and that ABC had had the best first half.

CIS claims that it was the psychological winner. The psychological advantage attributed to CBS must have come from the introduction into the coverage of the language of Texas, its images and metaphors, by Dan Rather and Wm, Moyers, both of whom are front Texas.

Among the Rather contributions were these lines. Of one candidate: “He's gotta feel, he's been rode hard and put away wet." Of one close race, Dan noted it was "hat-band tight", and another “tight as a cinch strap". Another was "hot as a hickory fire”, and still another "bonfire hot". This usage involved a little slippage, as bonfires are noted usually as being “bright" rather than "hot".

Moyers could not quite stay with Rather, but did get down home, to describe one contest as like "a back yard hen fight"; and then revealing his wider range of metaphors, said that the election had “as many threads as a Persian rug”.

The dodo, if asked to commend on this TV competition, might well say. in almost deathless words: “Everybody has run, and everybody has won, but nobody deserves the prize."