Word: competitors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...publisher who, until her husband died in 1971 and left her in command, could have rated herself as little more than a cub reporter. The morning daily does not have its own presses, rarely runs more than 20 pages an issue and has long been overshadowed by its afternoon competitor, the Times (circ. 45,000). Yet last week Fanning's tiny paper edged out some of the nation's leading dailies to win journalism's most esteemed award, the Pulitzer gold medal for public service...
Scoop Jackson was desperately trying to persuade voters that he is more than a stand-in for H.H.H. Straining to discredit his chief competitor on the ballot, he even tried to suggest that Jimmy Carter's indifferent stand on the right-to-work law when he was Georgia's Governor was somehow responsible for unemployment in Philadelphia. Big labor and most of the state's party sachems were pushing for Jackson in hopes of stalling Carter and making the Pennsylvania outcome so indecisive that the real winner would be Humphrey. Locals of the Sheet Metal Workers...
...courts (after more than 100 successful defenses) for interstate distribution of pornographic materials. Sentenced to 8½ years in prison on those charges, Thevis last month was hit with a concurrent 45 months after pleading no contest to the charge of conspiring to burn the movie theater of a porn competitor in Louisville. Thevis claims he sold his porn empire for $5.7 million in 1973. His feifdom, a maze of 200 corporations extending from California to New York, is still functioning, and police are trying to find out if Thevis continues to control it. Some officials believe he may be connected...
Last night's high score was achieved by Robert Silverman. Silverman, at 109,270, beat out his nearest competitor by over 25,000 points. The Currier team took four of the first six places...
Golan said Harvard's best player in the tournament was Jim Dahlen, ranked number one on the team, and Rick Climan, ranked as one of the top players in Division II. Each competitor won two matches against...