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Jeff Blatnick pinned Crimson heavyweight Kip Smith in the final bout last night to break a 20-20 tie and give the visiting Springfield Chiefs a hard-fought triumph over the Harvard wrestling team...
...Seventh Congressional District, is in some ways not the type of man from whom nascent politicos can derive a great deal of comfort. On the one hand, Ed Markey is a young politician who came from nowhere in the polls to win one of the most confusing and hard-fought Democratic primary battles for a Congressional seat in Massachusetts history. He showed that, in Massachusetts at least, you don't have to enter a campaign with a large electoral base or ties to a powerful political machine or a large bloc of ethnic votes to win. In fact...
...seat in 1970. Since that defeat, Metzenbaum, a Cleveland businessman, has been in and out of the Senate, as the appointee of Democratic Governor John Gilligan to replace Republican Willian B. Saxbe when Saxbe retired to become Attorney General. Metzenbaum lost his bid for election in a hard-fought 1974 primary battle against the eventual winner, Senator John Glenn...
...renewed assault was more than the Big Red could handle. First, Linsley fired in the goal that put Radcliffe up by two. Later, York put the icing on the cake with the final goal of the hard-fought contest. All the defense had to do then was sit back and insure its third shutout of the young campaign...
Already buoyed by his hard-fought triumph over Ronald Reagan, the President got some good news from the first polls taken after the Republican Convention in Kansas City. Gallup showed Ford trailing Jimmy Carter by only 39% to 49%; in July, after the Democratic revival meeting in Manhattan, Gallup had Ford behind by a dismal 29% to 62%. Opinion Research Corp. put Carter nine points up. TIME'S own poll gave Carter only a six-point edge...