Word: contests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there is the additional fact that this is something of a grudge match. Nixon and Rockefeller collided in 1960 over the nomination when, as today, Nixon was the announced candidate with much strength in the regular party organization and Rockefeller the non-candidate in search of a draft. The contest was woefully uneven then, but Nixon badly wanted the backing of liberal Republicans. Rockefeller refused to consider the vice-presidential nomination, harpooned the outgoing Eisenhower Administration-and by implication, Nixon-and, as the price of support, exacted from Nixon the famed 14-point Fifth Avenue compact that put Nixon...
Both teams finished the league at 12-2. Princeton beat the Lions last Saturday in New Jersey to force the playoff, but last night it was no contest...
Harvard takes on Dartmouth today for this season's last contest, while Columbia fights Princeton for the league title...
...necessarily who won or lost a particular contest, but how and why they came to be winners or losers and what it all means to the players and to the game. That, in sum, is our philosophy of how we should cover sports. And so our Sport team, headed by Senior Editor George G. Daniels, pushes aside the routine and instead seeks out insights that will fit stories into the larger context of what sports have to do with life...
...past two years, two of the world's poorest countries have spent about $25,000 a week in Geneva on lawyers and living costs to contest their rival claims to an obscure and worth less piece of land. Last week, after reviewing mountains of conflicting evidence, a U.N.-sanctioned tribunal of three justices (from Iran, Sweden and Yugoslavia) handed down a judgment that, in effect, gave 90% of nothing to India and the rest to Pakistan...