Word: fourth
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Still and all, barring future fourth-quarter collapses, the mettlesome ten has a good prospect for coming in second behind Cornell in the Ivy schedule, which the Crimson opens here Saturday against Penn...
...doubts, Washington and fourth-place-finishing Wisconsin will have another stab at Harvard and the national championship title later this season. Wisconsin, which was also at a training disadvantage in San Diego, will be an even greater challenge to Harvard at the Eastern Sprints in May at Princeton...
Barely 24 hours after King Faisal's death, his successor was installed as Saudi Arabia's fourth monarch. In a large, incense-filled hall in Riyadh's royal palace, princes and Cabinet ministers, religious leaders and Bedouin chiefs gathered for the ceremony of mubaya 'a to kiss King Khalid 's face and shoul der and swear allegiance to him. Soldiers and bodyguards in red-and-white kaffiyehs held back the crowd; at one point, the new King thrust himself into the throng to lead forward a blind old man who had come to greet...
After two weeks of intense political infighting, Portugal last week got its fourth provisional coalition government since last April's revolution. The new 21-member Cabinet, headed by Premier Vasco dos Santos Gonçalves, predictably confirmed the country's lurch to the left in the aftermath of an abortive right-wing coup staged three weeks ago by forces loyal to former President Antonio de Spinola. Unlike the preceding Cabinet, it has a majority of civilians (14) rather than military men (seven), but it is also clear that Communists and proCommunists predominate...
...major change was the inclusion of the relatively small but increasingly influential Democratic Movement Party, a leftist group that moderate Portuguese view as a Communist front. Both the Socialists and the slightly left-of-center Popular Democrats vehemently objected to the Democratic Movement being counted in as a fourth party in the coalition because it would enhance the power of the Communists. The two parties threatened to pull out of the government, but in the end both stayed rather than leave the field entirely to the far left...