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...Yale Ivy League championship. It would be the second in a row, don't forget, and that is something. Try to keep out of your mind the fact that Harvard is on the brink of winning its first outright Ivy title. That causes all sorts of anxiety...
...outset of a campaign that progressed from disarray to the brink of disaster, Hubert Horatio Humphrey confessed to close aides: "I'm dead." He was down so far he had no place to go but up. And up he went-up from a 16-point deficit in the polls, up from the chaos of the Democratic Convention. When he bade good night to loyal Democratic Party workers in the ballroom of the Leamington Hotel in Minneapolis at 2:30 a.m. on Nov. 6, the Vice President was racing neck and neck against Richard Nixon. Crucial states were still teetering...
...University of Wisconsin totters today on the brink of what may be its biggest student revolt since early last Fall, when over 1000 students clashed with Madison police in a Dow Chemical protest which left 65 students injured...
...other cities. E.G. & G., the company that triggers atom-bomb blasts for the Atomic Energy Commission, has a Negro-managed subsidiary that is building a metal-fabricating plant in Boston's Roxbury Negro district. In San Francisco, Safeway Stores has rescued a ghetto cooperative supermarket from the brink of bankruptcy, even though the store competes with a Safeway outlet ten blocks away...
...every time on grounds that "this is a legislative proceeding. This is not a court of law." Between gavel whacks, Ichord warned: "If you're going to burst out with any more emotional outbursts, please leave the room." Hoffman asked to be excused because he felt on the brink of an emotional outburst, then shouted an obscenity as the door closed behind...