Word: flukes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...meet started badly when 123-pounder Mike King and 130-pounder Brian Smith were pinned, the latter on a fluke. It got worse when Howard Durfee (137) dropped a close decision. Brian Conley (147) was pasted. 13-0, and Jack Mamana (157) lost a decision...
There was a bit of the fluke about the Steelers' win last time. Y.A. Tittle, the Giants' masterful passer, was on the bench with injuries. His replacement, Ralph Guglielmi, showed such brilliance in the Steelers game that the Giants displayed their gratitude by promptly trading him to San Francisco...
...Fine words, fitting words, at times inspiring words," said the New York Herald Tribune. "As he stood before Congress and the nation he showed himself not a fluke of history, but a President." For a newspaper with Republican sympathies, these were words of high praise. And they mirrored sentiments that were widely held through out the U.S. press. Editorial reaction to Lyndon Johnson's speech before Congress last week made clear that most newspapers, whatever their political preference, looked with favor and hope on the new President...
John Pont has built a sturdy defense and adequate offense from what had appeared to be insufficient material. While Yale probably should have fallen before Dartmouth, the Eli win was not completely a fluke. The only possible cause for a Penn win today would be Yale's making the same mistake that killed the Crimson; worrying more about Princeton than about the game at hand...
...Taste for Babies. Though there are no immediate plans to use the scio-myzids in large-scale attacks on snail populations, Berg did send five dozen larvae by air mail to Hawaii. There they are being bred to combat a snail-borne liver-fluke disease that has been plaguing the Hawaiian cattle industry...