Word: contests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rosenberg, who directed much of the TV series "The Defenders," shows us how his untamed man operates in some unlikely ideological battlegrounds: a Saturday afternoon boxing match, a poker game, and an egg-eating contest...
South House, which led the field for the first three days of the five-day contest, fell behind on Thursday and finished with 2595 laps...
Practicing religiously with 25 boys and 300 girls at a twirling camp in Syracuse, Indiana, Tuckwiller worked up the polish and "cocksure, sly, smily" attitude needed to win the contest and eventually to convince the Harvard Band it needed...
When rumors began circulating last month that McCarthy might contest the President in the Massachusetts primary, anti-Johnson forces in the state were enthusiastic about the prospect. But the politically astute among these were concerned that McCarthy might prove to be a "cream-puff." They had had their fill of educational campaigns with the 1962 Senate bid of H. Stuart Hughes, who rallied a whopping 2.4 per cent of the Massachusetts electorate to his cause...
...skeptics were particularly concerned about the New Hampshire primary. McCarthy had reportedly been influenced by John Kenneth Galbraith, Allard K. Lowenstein, and others who argued that a victory in the Granite State contest--the nation's first--would be a necessary first step in a successful campaign to unseat Johnson...