Word: defeating
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wife on one arm and $1,500 in a plastic bag under the other, he plunked down the electoral filing fee in Little Rock nearly four months before the legal deadline. Winthrop is bound and determined that the boy from Greazy Creek, Governor Orval Faubus, will never again defeat him the way he did in the 1964 gubernatorial race. Faubus has not said whether he will try for a seventh term, but his friends have a feeling that he is the only Democrat in the state who can keep Republican Rockefeller down on the farm...
Krupp has kept that pledge; the closest his complex now comes to providing the instruments of war is in its production of trucks and transport planes for the West German Bundeswehr. Patiently rebuilding from defeat, Krupp diversified to the extent that Krupp-owned concerns now turn out not only locomotives, aircraft, huge bucket dredgers and machine tools but even mineral water and orchids. Last year Krupp sales amounted to well over $1 billion, thus proving the point made by one of Alfried's corporate aides, who says pridefully: "Peace pays...
...panel concluded that the U.S. will suffer considerable loss of world prestige if it continues the use of chemical weapons in Vietnam. They added that world disarmament must take place before such weapons are perfected, because their concealment would be easy and would thus defeat the purpose or arms control...
...Robert Taft Jr., 48, who lost a bid in 1964 to follow his late father into the Senate, announced his candidacy for Congress from Ohio's First District. Taft had been Ohio's U.S. Representative-at-large before his defeat in the Democratic landslide, has since been practicing law in Cincinnati. The First District is traditionally Republican, but Taft faces a stiff fight from an energetic Democratic freshman incumbent, John Gilligan, 44, who was swept in by the same Democratic tide that beat Taft...
...Quakers will come to Harvard with an unblemished record, though a developing Yale team gave them quite a scare earlier in the season at New Haven. In the crucial number three match, with the score 4-4, Penn's Ed Serues rallied from five match points to defeat Yale's Jay Wescott...