Word: contests
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite months of preparation and cajoling, the fight is far from over. Gibson sees "a long and tortuous road" on the horizon. The contest over tuition assistance for middle income families may well turn into a fight to endure rather than to pressure...
...senator and two-term Lieutenant Governor who campaigns as "the right Republican." He is opposed to abortion, gun control and the Panama Canal treaties. Carrying the G.O.P. banner of moderation is Maurice Van Nostrand, 53, an ally of popular Governor Robert Ray. Van Nostrand says that a Jepsen-Clark contest would lead to a Republican defeat of Goldwater proportions...
This film offers what its makers fondly believe to be amusing slices of disco life on a typical weekend evening: underage teeny-boppers trying to sneak in so they can win the dance contest; a middle-class housewife trying to get her accountant husband to loosen up a little; a singer looking for her big break; the deejay in his glass booth worrying that the Commodores' instruments won't arrive in time for their live broadcast performance; the joint's owner looking for a lady on whom to exercise his distinctly resistible charms for a one-night...
...Redmen became the first team in history to win the tournament after having lost its opening contest. Holy Cross had beaten St. John's 5-3 on catcher Rick Allen's two-out, three-run homer in the bottom of the ninth inning in their contest last Thursday...
...Crimson displayed none of the fine hitting the squad had shown all season in that contest, managing only three hits over nine innings. Jim Peccerillo's bunt single in the second was the only Harvard base hit until Rick Pearce and Chuck Marshall strung together a pair of singles in the bottom of the eighth inning...