Word: comebacking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Race Three was to be the start of the big comeback for Southern Cross. The Australian crew had been defeated in the first two contests by margins of 4:54 and 1:11, and their backs were against the proverbial wall. But the first two races had been sailed in fog and light winds. This was not the Southern Cross's weather, the boat's admirers contended. Wait until the breeze freshens, they claimed, and she'll sail up to her much-publicized potential...
...student orientation toward jobs has even contributed to the comeback on campus of beer and liquor, since many students fear that a drug arrest might ruin their chances for a successful career. Moreover, they often find alcohol to be cheaper than drugs, which have been hard hit by inflation. At Boston University, Quaaludes have gone from 300 a tablet to as high as $3; at the University of Michigan, an ounce of marijuana costs as much as $15, up from $12 last year...
...front page. But now the drumbeat of daily Watergate headlines has died away to a faint, uninsistent thump. Suddenly, there is no "news." Or, to put the matter another way, all the news that fits is in print. Local gripes now receive fullblown front-page treatment. Crime makes a comeback. Sports stories normally relegated to back pages jump startlingly forward. The merely eyecatching, the determinedly trivial and the yawning of a new era are now featured boldly. Says the Boston Globe's assistant managing editor, Tim Leland: "Stories that would have struggled to make it into the paper before...
Died. William Ludlow Chenery, 90, editor, then publisher of the late Collier's weekly from 1925 to 1950; in Monterey, Calif. A learned, liberal Virginia-born newspaperman, Chenery led the ailing Collier's to a notable comeback by taking vigorous editorial positions (the magazine was an early champion of Repeal) and recruiting big-name writers-H.G. Wells, Sinclair Lewis, Ring Lardner, Zane Grey-at top dollar; in 1939 he signed F.D.R. to a $75,000-a-year contract for regular contributions...
Though Nixon did not register to vote until he was 25, he was a Congressman at 33, a Senator at 37, Vice President at 39-and an apparent has-been at 47. In a spectacular comeback, he fought his way to the presidency eight years later. He won re-election with the greatest number of popular votes in the nation's history. Then, barely a year later began an inexorable process that devastated his presidency. At the age of 61 he came down from the mountaintop for the last time...