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...Terriers ambushed a heavily favored Crimson team last season, scoring a touchdown in the final seconds to eke out a surprising 13-9 victory. And since Harvard coach Joe Restic and the Crimson team will be guarding against a similar occurrence while seeking some revenge, things could get interesting...
...heavily favored Brown team managed to eke out a 3-0 win over Rhode Island despite being all but smothered by the Rams for the entire game...
...Berkeley, argues that the Republicans are so weak that the U.S. no longer has a real two-party system: "I would call it a 1½-party system." Robert Teeter, President Ford's chief pollster, believes that the G.O.P. has reached "permanent minority status." According to this theory it will eke out a presidential
...that, Ford could eke out a narrow victory. Chief asset: indications, persuasive even to some Reagan admirers, that the horse in the stable is the best horse against the Democrats. Chief hope: a large turnout. Chief weakness: widespread perception that he supplies wobbly, uninspiring leadership. "I hope he spends a lot of time here," snipes Reagan California Campaign Manager Lyn Nofziger. "The more he's exposed, the better it is for us." But Ford supporters, who include most of the G.O.P. notables, want him back for at least another three days following last weekend...
Should Carter eke out a victory in a state with an equal distribution of blue-and white-collar workers and as great an ethnic mix as anywhere else in the nation, he will be well placed to defeat Favorite Son Lloyd Bentsen in the Texas primary at week's end. That would build a perhaps irresistible momentum for Carter-unless he can be slowed by the forces gathering behind Humphrey...