Word: contest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard outhit Brandeis 7-4, but that's where the palm-slapping ends. Lefty starter Jim Keyte, who came into the contest with the second best earned run average in the GBL, suffered through his worst outing of the year...
...found the net for his first career hat trick to lead Boston to a rousing 5-2 stomping of the Montreal Canadiens. With their best-of-seven NHL semifinal series tied at three victories apiece, the two teams now travel to the Forum for Thursday night's deciding contest...
...Birch Bayh of Indiana and ardent fund raiser for the American Cancer after her own bout with the disease began in 1971; of cancer; in Bethesda, Md. An Oklahoma beauty queen, Marvella Hern met her husband when she defeated him in the finals of an American Farm Bureau speaking contest. Known to Indiana friends as Marvelous Marvella, Bayh survived a 1954 auto accident that left her partially blinded for three years, a plane crash ten years later in which she and Edward Kennedy were injured, and the trauma of her alcoholic father's suicide (after he murdered her stepmother...
...tones grating and self-righteous, and that her slick and expensive American-style campaign was compared unfavorably with the traditional and sober approach of Jim Callaghan--who disdained, as he put it, "to be packaged like cornflakes." She also knows that in a one-on-one, Presidential-style contest with Callaghan, she might have lost hands down: the same polls which showed large Tory leads also put Callaghan way ahead in personal popularity. The striking fact, however, is that with a 75 per cent voter turnout, and a national voting swing of 5 per cent--the highest in decades...
Yale took the lead with less than five minutes remaining, sending Ball in alone for the winning goal. For the rest of the contest, the Bulldogs frustrated the Crimson with their passing game, attempting to draw the defense out and stall the game...