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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Neither candidate campaigned in the Mormon State, and Nixon won 75 per cent of Utah's vote, as expected. Spiting their tickets dramatically. Utahians returned popular Democratic Governor Calvin Rampton to office with 70 per cent of the vote against hapless Republican Nicholas Strike...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: How the People Voted Throughout the Country | 11/8/1972 | See Source »

...other action, Princeton blew over hapless Brown, 31-10, in a battle between two contenders for the Ivy cellar...

Author: By Daniel Swanson, | Title: Yale Dumps Favored Dartmouth, Takes Ivy Lead | 11/6/1972 | See Source »

...Angeles Rams' Norman Van Brocklin piled up 554 yds. against the feeble New York Yankees in 1951, while Y.A. Tittle of the Giants gained 504 yds. against the equally hapless Washington Redskin team in 1962. -Namath has since moved to another East Side apartment near more sedate Park Avenue; the llama rug is gone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Joe Namath and the Jet-Propelled Offense | 10/16/1972 | See Source »

...race that was over shortly after it began, the Harvard cross country team shut out a hapless Brown University squad in Providence yesterday...

Author: By E.j. Dionne, | Title: Harriers Smash Hapless Brown, 15-48 | 10/14/1972 | See Source »

...early consensus was that candidate McGovern was a persistent but nevertheless hapless loser. Although the columnists have in recent days triumphantly resurrected this early line, they were given a scare in the spring and summer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: D.C. Machismo | 10/3/1972 | See Source »

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