Word: contests
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Harvard players took the opportunity to gorge themselves on goals and assists. Sophomore George McManama set a new Harvard scoring record for an Ivy game, racking up eight points on two goals and six assists. Both McManama and Jack Turco tied the Crimson record for assists in an Ivy contest, with a half-dozen apiece...
...Though Finnish Architect Viljo Revell had won Toronto's city-hall competition four years earlier, the last contest for a municipal building in the U.S. was for San Francisco's city hall...
While his contest with Lyndon Johnson brought him the support of a variety of dissident elements, including the Nobel-laden "Scientists and Engineers for McCarthy"-many of whose members populated "Scientists and Engineers for Johnson and Humphrey" in 1964-scholarly Gene McCarthy last week got a taste of life beyond the fringe and found it disturbing. At a University of New Hampshire symposium, when Black Power Advocate William L. Strickland purred ugly platitudes labeling the U.S. "fundamentally a racist nation," the usually imperturbable Senator snapped: "I just don't agree." It was clear already that one problem he faces...
...Administration takes McCarthy's challenge seriously enough to plan a full-scale campaign of Johnsonian electors and stand-in candidates in New England. And, in fact, now that McCarthy is in the lists, he may actually benefit L.B.J. by turning unfocused discontent into a contest between visible opponents, solidifying strength behind the President...
Just to thank its many listeners for making this year such a great success, radio station WRKO has instituted a "Christmas Wish" contest. All its many listeners have to do is mail in their wish and the station will try to fulfill...