Word: flukes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first game of the afternoon's program, the Second XV handed M.I.T. a 23-3 drubbing. The weak MIT squad never posed a serious threat, scoring its second try by a fluke in the final seconds of the game...
...question is, of course, did this performance mean Harvard has again reached a turning point and now is ready to win football games, or was it a fluke? The answer should come this Saturday, when Harvard must defeat Columbia, or relinquish its share of the championship...
Getting It Out. Against Gray, a steady newcomer playing in his first U.S. Amateur championship, Harris proved that his win over Billy Joe was no fluke. He had a horrendous first 18 holes, bogeyed his way to a five-hole deficit after the morning round. At lunch, Harris' father phoned. "You can do it, son," he rooted. "You've got it in you." Returning to the table, Harris laughed. "I've got it in me." he said. "Now if only I can get it out." After lunch the scholarly young mathematician clicked off a spectacular series...
...Fluke. "I run only when I feel like it," says Snell, and this year he is in a running mood. Despite his upset 800-meter victory over Belgium's Roger Moens in the 1960 Olympics, Snell was still a virtual unknown last January, when he set out to run a sub4 min. mile for the first time. Against lackluster competition, over a slow grass track in the New Zealand town of Wanganui, he blazed through the mile in 3 min. 54.4 sec.-clipping a tenth of a second from Herb Elliott's 3∧-year-old world record...
...opponent, supported by Minnesota's Democratic-Farmer-Labor alliance, was overconfident, waged too easygoing a campaign. When Vavoulis ran for reelection this year, the D.F.L. candidate campaigned strenuously, placed newspaper ads picturing himself and President Kennedy, and few St. Paul politicians expected Vavoulis to repeat the 1960 fluke. But last week, by George, Vavoulis won again, this time by 7,000 votes...