Word: contests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...HAVEN. CONN., Nov. 21-Floyd Wilson was right; the home team does do better in the Harvard-Yale intramural contest. Though Harvard won two of three championship games, the Elis compiled a 6-5 record overall today, a vast improvement over the one victory they earned last fall in Cambridge...
Patriotic Mass. If Saturday belonged to members of the antiwar forces, the earlier part of the week was far more of a contest. Spurred by the example of the first Moratorium and by Nixon's pleas for support, citizens as tired of protest as they are of the war rallied during the week to the President's side. They did not capture the national imagination?or the numbers?that the antiwar movement did, but they succeeded in showing that there are still two popular sides in the debate...
...things, she has supposedly got her own cigarette. The militants abhor Playboy as well as most women's magazines, which take an equally narrow view of the woman's role. To demonstrate their disgust and alienation from sexist society, the angries picket the Miss America contest, burn brassieres, and dump into "freedom trashcans" such symbols of female "oppression" as lingerie, false eyelashes and steno pads...
Both the radicals and the women of NOW also do "actions," little guerrilla theatricals intended to raise consciousness generally, and a little hell besides. This fall they entered a secret candidate for Miss America, but their elaborate plans to have her denounce the contest from within fizzled. At Grinnell College in Iowa last February coeds stripped to the buff when a speaker expounded the Playboy philosophy. To draw attention to their cause, women in Chicago are concentrating on what they call "little dainties," such as elaborately opening doors for men and lighting their cigarettes...
...another New England semifinal contest. Brown edged Bridgeport 2-1 and earned the right to replay Harvard in Cambridge next Monday afternoon. The Crimson and Bruins are now only two victories from a winter trip to sunny San Jose, California, for the national championship...