Word: cinches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After knocking off Princeton, recognized as the East's top tennis team. Harvard looks like a cinch to overpower Dartmouth at Hanover today...
...return, he entered Harvard in the same class (1938) as the late Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., recalls him as a bright, amiable fellow who might have gone far in politics -but not so far as his brother John. Schlesinger made Phi Beta Kappa in his junior year, seemed a cinch to win highest honors-until his final oral exam. "Since Arthur knew so much," says Professor Paul H. Buck, "I felt I should give him a very stiff exam." It was so stiff that Arthur went home convinced he had flunked. That night a worried and embarrassed Schlesinger Sr. roused...
...organization front-page coverage in newspapers across the country. As long as Sims maintains the mystique, the American press will do his proselytizing and fund-raising for him. Sims estimates that there are now 50 to 60 Deacon chapters in existence, and it's a cinch that most of these were inspired by newspaper accounts alone. Sims told me, "I don't really like publicity. I'd never talk to the press if their noise didn't help...
...Lead-Pipe Cinch...
...cinch that Penn will do a great deal of passing today. Odell certainly hasn't forgotten the way his Bucknel' team upset Harvard in 1964: pass, pass, pass. The Crimson aerial defense rates statistically as one of the ten best in the country, but only because Harvard hasn't faced an out-and-out passing attack all year. Penn's only hope for springing an upset is for Wisniewski to riddle the Harvard secondary with passes; the Crimson defensive line is too good for Penn's runners to permeate with any regularity...