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Meyner's strategy-that of preventing a big sympathy vote for Kefauver-paid off. Last week when the votes were counted, Estes Kefauver won precisely one-half of one delegate vote-and that by a voting-machine fluke. The Meyner slate took the other 35½. Kefauver did little better in New Jersey's preferential vote. Running unopposed on the Democratic ballot, he received 110,000 votes against 329,000 for President Eisenhower on the Republican side...
...varsity's lead was only 2 to 0 at the end of the first period, and up to this point Dartmouth still had a chance to show that it's near-upset of Boston College had been no fluke. But sophomore Bob Owen, playing his best game to date, started a flood of five Crimson goals in the second period with his backhander...
...forward combinations, tested with success in Saturday's win over Dartmouth, gallantly rose to the occasion. Bob Owen, Lyle Guttu, and Pete Summers, encouraged by a fluke screen shot score earlier by Dennis Little all batted the puck past hapless Providence goalie Eddie Hornstein in the closing ten minutes to pull the surprise win. The Friars upset the Crimson in a pre-Christmas Garden match by a score exactly the reverse of tonight...
...turnabout resulted from a ludicrously simple one-word error in El Caribe last Oct. 27. By an unexplained fluke, a picture caption in that issue mentioned that flowers had been placed before Trujillo's tomb (tumba); the word should have been bust (busto). It was a fatal error, Ornes explained last week, because Trujillo "is very vain and superstitious. He thinks he is immortal, and the worst thing you can do is suggest his death." When he saw the word tumba in print, Ornes said to his U.S.-born wife: "This is the end of everything...
...found a simple answer: beat the Reds at their own game, and train harder than they do. Amateur Dave Stephens, 25, a professional milkman, ran away from Hungary's somber Sandor Iharos in a 3-mile exhibition race. His 25-yd. victory in 13:37.6 was no fluke. Only four days before, the "Flying Milkman" beat the holder of five world records- by the same margin in a 5,000-meter...