Word: contests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This annual freshman-sophomore football game was apparently the successor of another annual contest, a wrestling match between the two classes, a Harvard custom in the eighteenth century. Because the freshman-sophomore affair usually ended in a brawl, students got to calling game-day "Bloody Monday...
Waickowski played outstanding basketball in the final Penn game. Coming off the bench late in the contest, he tipped in two key baskets to break the Quakers...
Columbia will face Davidson in the Eastern semi-finals at Raleigh, N.C., on Friday. The winner of that game will face the winner of the North Carolina-St. Bonaventure contest for the right to go to the NCAA quarter finals at Los Angeles, March 23rd...
Lest anyone get the impression that airline stewardesses are losing their allure, the Cantegril Country Club in Punta del Este, Uruguay, has just completed its second annual "Queen of the Airline Hostesses" contest, which drew 13 beauties from as far away as India. Winner: Jill Spavin, 25, an American Airlines stewardess who spent two weeks before the contest lounging around Punta del Este in a bikini, destroying the judges' recollection that last year's winner, Patty Poulsen, had also flown American. Jill currently works the New York-Los Angeles run, but no one dares guess how long...
Thus, both American policy makers and citizens tend to think that the Vietnam war is the crucial contest of the age, with the winner taking all. The U.S. is seen to be preventing an omnipotent genie from escaping its bottle by jamming in the Vietnam stopper...