Word: also-rans
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...warning signals had been flashing for weeks. After the 1966 civil rights bill's ignominious demise last month, it was plain that the overriding cause was white resentment over Negro rioting in the cities. In Maryland, Perennial Also-Ran George Mahoney beat out seven rivals for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination by keying his campaign to prejudiced-or frightened -whites. In Louisiana, twelve-term Congressman James Morrison paid for his moderate racial record by losing the Democratic primary election to Segregationist John Rarick, who attacked Morrison as an ally of "the black-power voting bloc...
...loss to an also-ran in the League would almost wreck Harvard's chances to win the Ivy title, and it is highly likely that Columbia could spring an upset this afternoon. After a few anxious moments, the Crimson should...
Here's our upset special for the week. Never in history has Connecticut beaten Yale. But the Huskies have seven starters returning from a team which compiled a 4-4-1 record last season, and they would like nothing better than to beat the Elis. Yale looks like an also-ran in the Ivy League this season, but UConn will have to contain Eli halfbacks Jim Howard and Jim Groninger to spring an upset...
F.D.R. (ABC, 9:30-10 p.m.). The 1936 election with an in-person appearance by Also-Ran Alfred M. Landon...
...Also-ran: New York City's 144-day newspaper shutdown two winters ago; a pressmen's strike against Detroit papers that ended in November after 134 days...