Word: defeating
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...Potomac and the Ohio and east of the Mississippi. He will win almost no delegates from the South, but he is likely to carry the big-city delegations. Humphrey has recently taken to courting New York and Philadelphia Democratic machines, but it is unlikely that their present defeat-prone leaders will be around in 1972. In any case, city bosses will be inclined to support the candidate more likely to do well in their bailiwicks, and they will not fall to notice that Kennedy will be far ahead of Humphrey among their Negro and Catholic constituents...
...rocks of New York politics--and so, supposedly, will be unable to mount a Presidential drive for want of a secure "home base." It is true that the junior Senator will probably not be able to name the Democratic candidate for Governor, who has an excellent chance for defeating Nelson Rockefeller this fall; or choose the man who should fail miserably to defeat Senator Jacob Javits in 1968; or select the Democrat who may or may not be able to beat Mayor John V. Lindsay in 1969. Kennedy will probably not be able to win the trust of the Liberal...
Kirkland House has posted 47 victories in 53 games played in the past three years, including a 53-50 defeat of the freshman squad in an informal game earlier this season...
...some have particularly outstanding tutorial staffs in one field or another; and some have extensive programs of speakers from outside, while others depend more on their own resources. These differences are emphasized--and perhaps over emphasized--in the articles which follow. It would go a long way to defeat the whole purpose if the Houses specialized, for example, in athletics, or music, or politics...
...provide more educational aid to more families, but the funds must go to the poorest students. The Ribicoff amendment was a piece of shotgun legislation, spraying aid indiscriminately without regard to need. The government should spend the $1 billion for education, but it should spend it more sensibly. The defeat of the Ribicoff amendment cannot be interpreted as denying the government's obligation to make the opportunity of college education available to all students...