Word: duels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last two years the rivalry between these two teams has grown increasingly intense. Holy Cross had swept through six seasons undefeated against Harvard before 1950, but that year lost twice. In last season's only game the Crusaders won a thrilling pitcher's duel, 1-0, behind the six-hit hurling of Jim O'Neill...
Kefauver called in his 81-year-old father for a handshaking tour, and Illinois' Senator Paul Douglas flew down for some speeches. Watching this duel in the South, most politicians and reporters agreed that the odds favored Dick Russell. He is the regular Southern Democrat; he has powerful organization support (from Governor Warren, Florida's full congressional delegation) ; he was drawing bigger crowds than Kefauver. But the experts were beginning to get a little leary of quoting the odds when Estes Kefauver is running...
...Philadelphia, most fans assumed that Milers Don Gehrmann, Fred Wilt and Warren Druetzler would run a three-way duel while the rest of the field watched their spikes. But Gehrmann and Druetzler proved no mudders and, though Wilt sloshed along valiantly, Purdue's Denis Johansson, 23, splashed past the leaders on the last lap, all but floated across the finish line to win by 10 yards over Wilt. Johansson's time (4:18.2) was understandably slow. The real rub: Purdue's Johansson might easily repeat or better his performance at Helsinki this summer-and, as a Finnish...
...Latino individualist seems ever ready to fight, or at least duel, for his sacred personal rights, the record shows that he also goes in heavily for hero worship. Since Bolívar's day, Latin Americans have tended to follow men rather than parties or principles. They call themselves Peronistas, Arnulfistas (in Panama), Ibañistas (in Chile). Most of their caudillos, their strong men, have come from the army. Currently, military men preside over eleven Latino governments. Instead of confining themselves to the job of defending their country, Latin American militarists are entrenched as "the only well-organized...
Middleman Out. In Dallas, Horace Coleman refereed a pistol duel between two pals, caught a slug in each...