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Philadelphia: The Crusher A lackluster machine politician before the 1967 campaign began, Philadelphia's Mayor James Tate had both luck and organized labor on his side when election day rolled around. By chance, he had been in Tel Aviv during the six-day Arab-Israeli war last June; later he appeared in Rome when Philadelphia's Archbishop John Joseph Krol was installed as cardinal, thereby gaining overnight a statesmanlike image. At home, Big Jim threw his wholehearted support behind Police Commissioner Frank Rizzo's tough antiriot policies, thus winning the support of Philadelphia's working-class...
Organized labor provided the crusher. Armed with some $200,000 from the A.F.L.-C.l.O., the mayor's machine turned out the workingman's vote in automated order. Workers thus repaid Tate's past deference to Philadelphia's big maritime unions (he recently rejected a bill to expand docking facilities to Camden, N.J., and Chester, Pa.) and his approval of a $40 million wage-and-retirement bill. Tate...
While Harvard was smashing Columbia and Penn last weekend, Brown was suffering the crusher at Amherst, 79-16, and an almost equally painful loss to Springfield, 64-31. It hurts to mention Harvard's early season 61-34 devastation of that same Springfield team...
...both in Boswell. "Mr. Johnson," Boswell gasped as he sat gaping at the Grand Cham of English letters, "I do indeed come from Scotland, but I cannot help it." Fixing Boswell with the cold eye of a constable sizing up a fugitive from justice, Johnson applied the famous crusher: "That, Sir, I find, is what a very great many of your countrymen cannot help." But a few minutes later, Johnson was warming to his "other self," and at their third encounter he cried: "Give me your hand! I have taken a liking...
...next match was the real crusher, an Cornell's Fran Ferraro pinned Jeff Grant at 6:10 in the 177 pound match to swell the lead to a virtually Impregnable six points Bob Buchwald then shut out Bill Malugen. Harvard's inexperienced 191 pounder, 7 to 0 and Cornell had the match, and probably the title, pocketed...