Word: contests
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Genial & Relaxed. Nixon, meanwhile, was doing some talking for himself in New Hampshire, where he is regarded as the front runner in the contest that starts the presidential primary season next March. Prefacing everything by saying, "If I become a candidate," he predicted "a close, hard fight in this state" that "I don't expect to lose." Both in New Hampshire and Chicago, his next stop on the way to Wisconsin, he was a genial, relaxed version of the old uptight campaigner. He even had some spare empathy for Johnson ("I've had a few problems with...
Even that sally failed to stir much interest because Nunn for months has been making only moderate noises on racial questions. So negative has the contest become that unqualified partisans are difficult to find. One Kentucky Republican who has given Nunn tepid support complains: "They're either against Nunn because of something he said against Catholics or Jews in the primary, or they're against Ward because they don't like Breathitt or Johnson." The Louisville Courier-Journal endorsed Ward, but faulted him for me-tooing Nunn's positions opposing a state open-housing...
...those figures the 105 yards he gained in the Holy Cross contest, note that in that game he quick-kicked 52 yards on the dead run in a play that began as a sweep around the end--and you've got a composite picture of a superb football player...
With his team healthier than it has been in several weeks, soccer coach Bruce Munro is still more concerned about the Penn game this weekend than he has been about any previous contest this year...
Actually, things have not been quite as bleak as the record would suggest. The freshmen's first contest, against Columbia, was a 7-3 win which featured a hardy Crimson defense, though the offense seemed one-sided. It centered on halfback Richie Szaro, the swift and shifty fellow who has scored four of the Yardling's five touchdowns so far this season...