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...Victor Steeh, 44, who had represented the area previously, and got every big Democratic name in the state to campaign for him. The stakes for the Republicans, and particularly Romney, were just as high. To support the relatively green G.O.P. candidate, Lawyer David Serotkin, 28, Romney again led a clutch of party personalities to the stump...
...News, Va., the President dropped an oblique hint that it would feel strongly compelled to do so. The occasion was the launching of the 61,450-ton attack carrier John F. Kennedy, christened by Caroline Kennedy, 9, with her mother Jacqueline standing alongside as matron of honor and a clutch of Kennedys near by. While earnestly praying that "this majestic ship" would sail the world's oceans in peace, Johnson noted that she might some day have to fight. For the fact is, said the President, indirectly referring to both Viet Nam and the Mideast, that "today, as throughout...
...three matches we lost, the boys played hard, but just couldn't pull cut that clutch point," Wynn added. Larry Terrell, the top man, could never really get his power game unleashed, but still had a creditable 4-4 record...
Winning the pole is not winning the race, of course, and Andretti's toughest competitor on May 30 may well be Parnelli Jones, the 1963 champion, whose controversial new STP Special was the talk of Indy. Powered by a Pratt & Whitney aircraft turbine, the car has no clutch, only two "glow" plugs, can run on anything from kerosene to armagnac, gets twice as many miles per gallon as conventional Indy cars, and is practically soundless-emitting a sort of loud sigh as it ghosts around the track. Jones easily qualified the car at 166 m.p.h., and competitors cried foul...
Both teams collected unearned runs in the second inning. Tom Thornton, the football quarterback and leftfielder who contributed a clutch error to the Harvard seventh-frame uprising, started things off by beating out a grounder on a close play at first. He stole second, moved to third on a passed ball by Crimson catcher Jeff Hall, and scored on a squeeze bunt...