Word: flukes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mile or longer three times. Twice he won with ease, defeating candidates for the glue factory. But in the 1 1-8 mile Wood Memorial at Aqueduct earlier this month Bold Lad tired and finished third. The experts are passing this defeat off as a fluke, but since it was Bold Lad's only real test at a distance, the Wood suggests that the sold Derby favorite will run out of gas in the home stretch...
...Angeles fans were ready to forgive and forget. So what if the Dodgers tied for sixth place last year. That was a fluke. Now Johnny Podres was fogging in fastballs the way he used to in the old Brooklyn days. Leftfielder Tommy Davis, whose batting average plummeted to .275 last year, was hitting like Babe Ruth in the Grapefruit League. Maury Wills was stealing every base in sight, tied down or not. And how about Sandy Koufax? "My arm feels perfect," proclaimed Lefthander Koufax, who celebrated by pitching two complete games and striking out 15. Bookmakers installed the Dodgers...
...trouble with this analysis is that it has nothing to do with what most voters were actually thinking. It sees last year's election as an isolated fluke. To understand why American voters split their tickets--or, in many cases, failed to do so--it is necessary to go back and look at the state politics of the mid-fifties and early sixties, and at the tremendous difference between the political atmosphere of those years and that...
Back in December, Princeton's basketball team lost to top-ranked Michigan a scant two points, but the experts "fluke" after the Tigers had sprung the upset of the year, Last Saturday Princeton bombarded ranked Providence, 109 to 69, win the Eastern regionals of the NCAA basketball tournament, but the keptics were still unconvinced...
...Wolverines have a rugged team, and their number one national ranking no fluke. Michigan's leading players is -5 Cazzie Russell, an All-American whose great shooting has been a major factor Michigan's 23-3 record this season. But the Wolverines' biggest assets are muscle and height...