Word: contests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Understandably, Las Vegas bookmakers offer no odds-even unofficial odds-on the 1968 presidential contest. They figure that the betting on this race should be left to amateurs and madmen...
...Ananis is ready and the Harvard midfielders play as well as they did in the M.I.T. win on Wednesday, the Crimson could win their first League contest since edging Brown, 8-7, two years ago. "It should be a good game," Munro said, meaning a possible...
...Corsairs don't have a stopper or a dependable reliever, but their staff is competent and lovable: Woody Fryman is a tobacco farmer, Bob Veale is suing Sport Magazine for a million dollars, "Deacon" Law could be mayor of Pittsburgh or Meridian, Idaho, with no contest, Dennis Ribant is a Met who might make good, Elroy Face ... To understand why baseball will always be the national pastime, tune in the Pirates some night when they're down 3-0 going into the seventh and listen to announcer Bob Prince, the best in the business, root the Buccos on, single...
Otherwise it was no contest. Navy's captain, P.R. Jones, one of the east's best golfers, played at number 3 and over-whelmed Harvard's Paul Oldfield, 4 and 2. Tom Wynne (No. 4) and Bob Sinclair (No. 5) both lost their matches 4 and 2. Sinclair was the only senior in Saturday's match...
...strong G.O.P. showing resulted from a strictly partisan contest. Tiernan, 38, and DiPrete, 39, are similar down to the horn-rimmed glasses they both wear. Both are Roman Catholics, lawyers, fathers of three-and uninspiring campaigners. There was little to distinguish their views on most issues. Neither announced a stand on Viet Nam until an independent "peace" candidate, Unitarian Universalist Minister Albert Perry, forced them into a choice (Perry got 2.7% of the vote). Tiernan came out in full support of the Johnson Administration. DiPrete at first favored a suspension of U.S. bombing of North Viet Nam, then-realizing that...