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Wiggin and second row player Bill Jameison spearhead a big, mobile group of forwards which "are our biggest asset," according to team treasurer Tom McKinley. "They can control the ball against anyone in the Ivy League...
Democrats running for Congress wish McGovern were as contrary. The farther he stays away from their home turf, the happier most of them are. Indeed, Republicans see McGovern, not Nixon, as their greatest asset in congressional campaigns. Declares one Republican campaign manager: "McGovern is the best thing we've got going for us." Assuming he is elected, Nixon will likely face a strong opposition Congress in his second term, just as he did in his first...
Launching his $146,000 campaign with a breakfast aboard a river excursion boat, Heinz never let up. He conducted opinion polls on dozens of subjects, blitzed the district with position papers, and wined and feted labor leaders, political pros and volunteer workers. One presumable campaign asset was his attractive wife Marie Teresa Simoes-Ferreira Heinz, 34. Born in Mozambique, she speaks French, Spanish and Portuguese, but can use very direct English when talking politics. She shocked one group by labeling it "a bunch of bigots...
...politicians in Cambridge have been using Harvard as a whipping boy for years," Downes said last week. "I don't go for that town-and-gown stuff. Harvard is there and it's tremendous asset to the community," he said...
...concerned with your liking or disliking me," Robinson replied. "All I ask is that you respect me as a human being. I am not ashamed of my dark skin. You and every other white American should understand that we believe our color is an asset. Your dislike of my aggressiveness has no effect on me. I'm after something much more important than your favor or disfavor. You should at least admit that you respect me as a man who stands up for what he believes in. I am not an Uncle Tom. I am in this fight to stay...