Word: contests
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...York's Democratic Governor Hugh Carey won 52% of the vote in a contest with Lieutenant Governor Mary Anne Krupsak and State Senator Jeremiah Bloom. Spending $1.5 million-ten times as much as either of his opponents-Carey veered sharply to the right during the campaign, emphasizing his efforts to restore fiscal solvency to New York City and his modest state tax cuts. Though playing up his slight stiffening of the juvenile crime laws, he remained firmly opposed to capital punishment. This is the issue that will be stressed by his G.O.P. adversary, Long Island State Assemblyman Perry Duryea...
...Henry II wants to make sure another Ford takes it over. Mindful of his own battle in the mid-1940s to wrest control of the company from Director Harry Bennett, who had gained sway over his aged grandfather Henry I, Henry II wants no willful executives who might contest a smooth succession...
...biggest of the opening day Ivy tilts was supposed to be the Yale-Brown contest in Providence. It turned out to be the biggest rout, with the Elis sandblasting the pre-season favorite Bruins...
Yale scored all of its points in the first half, 14 of them in the first quarter. Tailback Mike Austin scored from two yards out three minutes into the contest, and then took a breather and watched reserve tailback Ken Hill dart 17 yards on a fourth and two situation for Yale's second score of the quarter...
...half-way point the outcome of the meet was no longer in question. The Crimson runners were sitting pretty and everyone knew it. Northeastern's graduated Flora twins, who watched this contest from the sidelines, could only shake their heads and mutter obscenities. The Huskies needed more than their moral support to pull out this...