Word: contendere
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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In short, Ike had asked Scranton to try for the 1964 presidential nomination. Said Scranton to reporters: "It was not a deep discussion about national politics. But he did point out that he believed-at this stage of the game -two things: one was that a great many people that...
Last year, F and M eked out a 15-14 win over Harvard. With veteran 191-pounder Bob Fastov swinging into action--there was no 191-pound match at the tournament or in Harvard's first meet with M.I.T.--and with letterman Jack Mamana filling the big hole at 157...
In the U.S., it was noted, power passed securely and quickly to a close-working associate of Kennedy, to a member of his own party and a man who had himself been an outstanding contender for the presidency. In France, under the constitution of the Fifth Republic, the successor to...
The Swedes need backstopping, and last week a U.S. contender was announced by Colorado's Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies. Next spring the institute will launch a Nobel rival called the Aspen Award-a $30,000 prize to the one person in the world who "each year makes the...
Ruler of the World. But discounting Indira as a real political contender, the choice of most party members at present is former Home Minister Lai Bahadur Shastri, 59, an honest if colorless politician who has been one of Nehru's most loyal lieutenants and who, like his leader, comes...