Word: contests
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Thus ended the great spy trial that pitted an elegant, aristocratic cynosure of the Eastern Establishment against a rumpled, relatively obscure, former Communist. For many Americans, the contest was an elemental struggle between good and evil, between leftist New Dealers and right-wing antiCommunists. It divided the nation, set off widespread fears that the State Department was infiltrated by Soviet agents, and helped launch Joseph McCarthy on his hunt for Reds. Moreover, the case gave national prominence to a fledgling California Congressman, Richard Nixon, who used the notoriety to help win a Senate seat in 1950 and the vice presidency...
Sullivan also bettered his winning effort over last week's contest. He leaped 6 ft. 10 in. to take first in the high jump. Geoff Stiles, however, failed to repeat his G B C victory in the pole vault, missing at the opening height...
...contest would have been a classic shootout for second place in the Ivies, a roof-raising barnburner between the 4-2 Lions--led by tough guards Alton Byrd and Ricky Free--and the 3-2 Crimson, led by Brian Banks and guard Glenn Fine...
THOUGHTS WHILE SHOVELING: For those of you who are missing the Dartmouth Winter Carnival because of the storm, have no fear. In case you didn't read the front page, Burriss Young is sponsoring his own snow-sculpting contest right here in Cambridge. Admittedly the Widener steps don't quite match the Dartmouth Ski Bowl for facilities, but the jumping has been excellent...
...second stanza, Captain Cook put Harvard in the lead for the first time in the contest with a power-play goal. "Barney" gathered in a pass from George Hughes--who had gotten the puck from John Cochrane on the point--skated out of the corner, looked to return a pass to Hughes, but then slipped in front of the cage to poke a backhand shot between the legs of Ed Arrington...