Word: bugaboos
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Despite tough games still ahead with Princeton (6-1) and Harvard (5-2), Yale now is a solid favorite to win its first Ivy League title in seven years-barring further damage to Dowling. Injuries have been Brian's biggest bugaboo since he was a junior at St. Ignatius High in Cleveland and broke his collarbone in a football game-the only game St. Ignatius lost during his four years on the team. He missed all but one game at Yale last year because of torn cartilage in his right knee; this season, in addition to the tender knee...
...Premier Aleksei Nikolaevich Kosygin, 63, whose hound-dog countenance is better known in the West than the two or three others with whom he shares power, the government is experimenting with economic liberalization and cautiously widening the still narrow limits of individual freedom and expression. Ideology, long the great bugaboo of Soviet life, is being sacrificed to pragmatism in order to get things done. And the regime is facing a growing gap between Russia's government and its citizens, brought about by the onslaught of technology and the rise of new and striving classes in the "classless society...
...barring either a spectacular military triumph or successful negotiations with Hanoi, a G.O.P. candidate might well argue, a la Eisenhower, that a new Administration is needed to end an unpopular war. The looming threat of inflation-"profitless prosperity" as Washington's Governor Evans calls it-is another bugaboo. The decaying cities and the exploding ghettos could develop into the biggest issue of all. Taken together, the problems are helping to build a formidable "anti" vote-the kind that helped Ike to defeat Adlai Stevenson, and Franklin Roosevelt to unseat Herbert Hoover...
...inevitable Harvard freshmen who find a bugaboo in a requirement called P.T. face a definitely less personal, supposedly more flexible, and probably more evadable monster this fall...