Word: contests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Normally, off-year congressional elections turn on little more than local issues and personalities. These are not normal times, however, and the results of last week's contest for a vacant seat from Massachusetts' Sixth District carried implications far beyond the gritty shoe factories at Lynn or the fishing boats off the gray Gloucester coast...
Both candidates took strong, contrasting stands on national issues, turning the contest into a virtual mini-referendum on the Nixon Administration. The Republican, State Senator William Saltonstall, 42, campaigned almost down the line with the Administration on Viet Nam, the ABM and tax reform. In contrast, Democrat Michael J. Harrington, 33, a state representative, opposed Administration policies, attacking the ABM, calling for total withdrawal from Viet Nam by 1970 and criticizing high military spending...
...autobiography This Life I Have Lived, she explained that all her life she wanted to do things better than anyone else. She liked to win, and, to insure success, she trained hard for whatever contest she entered. But it was not only in sports that Babe Zaharias strove to excel. While in school, she had to make a dress in sewing class and determined it should be the best. Her dress was the winner of the State Fair of Texas. She also won a gold medal in school for the best speed in typing...
...even contest in the first half, and Harvard may even have had the better of it. leaving the field at halftime with a 10-7 lead. But the afternoon was all downhill for Harvard fans after the dance revue by the B. U. cheerleaders and the Harvard Band prop crew...
...game was listed on the Harvard schedule as a B squad contest, but coach Henry Lamar used a cross section of his players. It was the first game for this year's Yardlings, who officially start their season at 3 p.m. Friday against Columbia in Cambridge...