Word: contesters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...really understand the true frustration of the Harvard effort, one must look back to the early end of the contest. Start with the pole vault, normally a sure thing for Harvard with Geoff Stiles working the runway...
...Meyer won four games straight in the final set of her contest to tally another point for the Crimson cause, as she downed Maura Nolan, 2 and 4. At five, Captain Katie Ditzler destroyed an overmatched Colleen Ryan 6-2, 6-1. Leslie Miller fell in the sixth position, 2-6, 3-6 to B.C.'s Martina Nolan...
Princeton is not on Harvard's schedule this year and has not been for many years. The toughest contest the women face this season is their April 22 duel with Yale in New Haven. Two other Ivy teams, Penn and Dartmouth, will make the trip to Cambridge with the Big Green sporting a strong squad...
Though still in prison, the charismatic Aquino has managed to turn the campaign into a genuine contest-with some unwitting help from the government. Last month Aquino was given the chance on national television to rebut official charges that he had been a CIA agent. Speaking from his detention center in Fort Bonifacio, Aquino first coolly refuted the CIA charge. Then, with millions of Manilans still glued to their TV sets, he launched into a crisp, rapid-fire denial of a raft of other government charges against him. That dramatic appearance provided a crucial boost to Marcos' opposition, whose...
...result, the campaign itself has already profoundly changed the political mood in the Philippines. Only a few months ago, riot police would have broken up any attempt to hold a rally against martial law. Now ten such rallies take place every night. Clearly, in agreeing to make a contest of the election at all, Marcos encouraged expectations that the process of restoring democracy to Philippine political life will continue. As Jerry Barican, a law professor and Laban candidate, said last week: "For the first time in five years, we have been able to put our message across to the people...