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That year, Champi remained in Cambridge to work on two papers while his former teammates finished a dismal 3-6 season with an unexciting "O loss to the Ellis in New Haven...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Champi Learns to Live With Memories | 11/25/1972 | See Source »

...Rojas finished a dismal 220 in yesterday's NCAA cross country meet in Houston Texes. The race was won by Neil Kusack of East Tennessee with a time of 28:23. Rojas had a time of 33:57. Of a field of 279 starters, only 241 finished. Other finishers were Doug Brown, second, of Tennessee at 28:44, and Ed Leddy of E. Tenn, who was third with a time of 28:52. Tennessee finished first with 134 points followed by East Tennessee with 148 and Oregon with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NCAA | 11/21/1972 | See Source »

...Chicago Daily News's Washington correspondent Peter Lisagor treated both parties with commendable fairness while panning a campaign he called "a dismal disappointment, the least ennobling in our experience." Mike Royko, Lisagor's Chicago-based colleague, deftly pointed out the irony of Mayor Richard Daley's quick return to party eminence after being unseated by McGovernites at the Democratic Convention: "He's getting his revenge, all right...He just sits back and lets the reformers and new-politics crowd come to him, asking: 'Steal one for us, Dick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign That Was: Some Bright Spots | 11/20/1972 | See Source »

...infringed on a main canon of British breeding (somehow lost in the Atlantic transit) which considers youth a regrettable interlude to be borne with patience and modesty, and ambition as tolerable only if it is decently concealed. The film does treat Churchill's publicity-mongering, as well as his dismal performace in school, where he was invariably ranked last, but in a manner which makes it all seem cutely ironic. ("What is ever to become of you?" Churchill's father asks...

Author: By Sim Johnston, | Title: Churchill: Now More Than Ever | 11/20/1972 | See Source »

...because the Liberal Democratic establishment was willing to gamble that he could turn the party's slowly eroding electoral fortunes around. So far, it has been a good gamble. Tanaka won an astonishing 62% approval rating in a nationwide opinion poll; Sato's last rating was a dismal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: The Computerized Bulldozer | 10/2/1972 | See Source »

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