Word: celler
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Crimson lacrosse team had to revert to a little Tennis action Saturday, to pull out a 12-11 come-from-behind victory over rival celler-dweller Dartmouth in Hanover...
Elizabeth Holtzman,33, challenged Emanuel Celler in 1972 for the congressional seat that he had held for 50 years, and her vigorous campaign convinced Brooklyn's 16th District that it was indeed time for a change. As a House freshman, she brought suit against the Defense Department and the Air Force to stop the bombing in Cambodia but lost in the Supreme Court. A graduate of Radcliffe and Harvard Law School, Holtzman spent summers working on civil rights cases in Georgia and served a three-year stint as an assistant to former New York Mayor John Lindsay...
...black voters. A lawyer who writes poetry and loves opera, he nevertheless is popular in a tough-talking city where politics is rough. He voted against such technological projects as the ABM and the SST. He succeeded New York's Emanuel Cellar as judiciary chairman last January after Celler was defeated for reelection...
...that stands between the Crimson and the Ivy League fencing celler is Yale. And all that is left to determine who wins the hindspot in the League is today's match...
Candidate Holtzman was probably helped by the fact that she is a McGovern supporter and by an undeniable complacence on the part of Celler backers. The Congressman ruefully noted: "My problem was that I didn't have any problems." But Liz was an attractive candidate in her own right. Born and raised in Brooklyn, she earned a Phi Beta Kappa key at Radcliffe. While a student at law school she went to the South to give legal aid to the civil rights movement, then joined a small New York law firm after graduation. She later worked for Mayor John...