Word: contests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...downtown Los Angeles, to wait out the vote count. Already high spirits rose with the favorable totals. In South Dakota, he won 50% of the vote, v. 30% for a slate favorable to Native Son Hubert Humphrey and 20% for Eugene McCarthy; then, in the far more crucial California contest, it was 46% for Kennedy, 42% for McCarthy and 12% for an uncommitted delegate group. The two victories gave Kennedy 198 precious delegate votes. Plans were being made for the campaign's next stages in New York and other key states, but first, that night, there were some formalities...
Harvard faces another contest before the trials begin: the 103rd annual Harvard-Yale Race. "The Boat Race," as it is known to more traditional buffs, is the oldest intercollegiate athletic contest of any kind in the United States...
...highlight of the 1917 season came on November 3, when the Army from Camp Devens met the Navy Yard in a championship contest in the Stadium following a 6500-man military parade. H. T. Enwright '19 paced the Ensigns to a 28-0 victory before 20,000 fans...
Part of the normalcy which the country returns to is the prospect of a Humphrey-Nixon presidential race, a contest between experienced and conventional apostles of order--tepid progressives on racial problems, unimaginative hawks on the Vietnam...
While the results of the competition .did nothing to challenge male pre-eminence in Bach, they did indicate that the ladies, whose number has included such superb stylists as Wanda Landowska and Rosalyn Tureck, may know something about Bach's music that men don't. Contest Founder-President Raissa Tselentis does not go so far as to say that Bach, the father of 20 children, was not a manly composer. But she does suggest that "we women tend to be more spiritual. It is the spiritual side of women that responds to Bach...