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Probably the biggest plus that McCarthy carries into Wisconsin is his religion. The state is one-third Catholic, and more than 40 per cent of the primary vote will be cast in Catholic Democratic cities in the east. In the 1960 Kennedy-Humphrey contest, it was estimated that up to three-fourths of Wisconsin Catholics voted Catholic...
...Harvard-Yale showdown loomed as the biggest test of the season for both teams, as the Eastern League and Big Three titles depended on the outcome. Two weeks before the match Junta began to talk quietly to each team member about the importance of winning against Yale. The Bulldogs had breezed through their schedule and were patiently waiting to polish off their Cambridge rivals. Harvard had won for the last two years and the Elis were bent on revenge...
...Rico, on the one pulsar whose position was given by the British, Astronomer Frank Drake confirmed the rapid, regular signal and discovered that it was ten times as powerful at 111 MH (for megahertz: 1,000,000 cycles per second) than at any other frequency. "This has been the biggest bombshell that I can remember in radio astronomy," he says. Caltech Astronomer Maarten Schmidt, who discovered the strange nature of quasars, calls the finding "fantastic, incredible...
...Science was still sweet and Fight Night had the glamour and excitement of a Broadway opening. At Manhattan's new $43 million Madison Square Garden, tuxedoed gents and long-gowned ladies crowded into the $100 ringside seats, and a total of 18,096 fans paid $658,503, the biggest indoor gate in history, to see the kind of fight card that is all too rare: a doubleheader that matched 1) Italy's slick-boxing Nino Benvenuti, 29, against Slugger Emile Griffith, 30, for the world middleweight title, and 2) Philadelphia's Joe Frazier, 24, unbeaten...
...formation of the Intercollegiate Association of Amateur Athletes of America (IC4A) gave collegiate track the biggest boost it would ever get--it held its first meet that year at Saratoga, New York, offering a huge silver cup as a trophy to the team winning the most IC4A titles between then...