Word: contesters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...September afternoon in 1974 Elaine Summers, 23, then a University of Hartford senior, was studying in a park when a man brandishing a piece of broken glass threatened to rape her. She talked him out of it. Two months later police arrested Joseph Polumbo Jr., 20. Polumbo pleaded no contest to a reduced charge of assault, but was set free when the judge gave him a suspended sentence...
...D.T.A. will probably wind up with 80% of the vote. But the showdown between the D.T.A. and SWAPO lies ahead. SWAPO is still waging the guerrilla war. It might suspend the fighting during a U.N.-supervised election campaign, but it would not be prepared to lose that voting contest. Says a SWAPO leader: "The struggle will continue. That's all." Translation: If SWAPO should be defeated at the polls in such an election, the bloodshed would continue...
...fierce contest for big-buck conventions, every major city is adding exhibition space, hotel rooms and other facilities. Though these are the meat and taters of convention planning, other factors have to be considered. Among them: accessibility, ambience, restaurants, night life, theaters, museums, shopping, sightseeing, sports and the degree of local cooperation. Thus New York City and Chicago perennially head the Top Ten convention cities in numbers of conventioneers and dollars spent, but the jostling runners-up reflect demographic change and civic ambition. The field...
...power play, a primary eyesore for Harvard so far, put it together for the first tally. The Crimson came into the contest shooting a paltry 17 per cent in man-up situations before freshman Mike Watson made good on the first Vermont penalty of the contest, redirecting a John Cochrane laser by Frost...
Mitch Reese barely knocked off Trinity's Rob Dudley in the afternoon's closest contest. Dudley took the first two sets but Reese clawed back, winning...