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Even if President Ford manages to defeat Jimmy Carter in today's election, he will still have to contend with a heavily Democratic Congress that should appear very similar to the one he has frequently attacked during the current campaign. Of the races for 33 Senate and 435 House seats up for election, only a handful provide the Republicans with any hope of changing the Congressional balance of power and regaining any of the seats they lost in the Democratic Congressional land-slide...
...NASL is not the WFL. If Sports Illustrated can be believed, soccer is "on the verge of becoming a major spectator sport." It has even had to contend with the infamous Sports Illustrated cover jinx...
Bill McCurdy, varsity cross-country coach, said yesterday he was against running the three freshman in fairness to those who did run. McCurdy said, "Not only did Stowell have Andover to contend with, he had to fight with me" on this point...
Without its top three runners, the team had enough to contend with, but the weather added to its problems. "It was too dry and the team couldn't use the swim strokes they learned last week at the rainy Brown meet," Stowell said...
...they awaited the results, both candidates faced one certainty. Whoever won would have a formidable opposition leader to contend with. Indeed, with the likelihood of a reduced margin of seats in the Bundestag dividing winner and loser, it seemed possible that neither Kohl nor Schmidt would be able to stay in power for a full four-year term...