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...second single, Mike Humphries lost a close 3-1 match, but this was the extent of Andover's scoring. At fourth singles, Will Sutton, who played for Andover last year, won a hard-fought match to give the Crimson its second point. Tim Gallway took his third singles match from the Blue, and at fifth singles Steve Kissel picked up the final point for the Crimson...
...Nebraska's Third District, following a hard-fought battle between two candidates who both favored the Bricker amendment and opposed foreign aid northeast Nebraska's drought-suffering farmers blamed their misfortune on Ezra Benson-Backer Robert D. Harrison, 59. Democrat Lawrence Brock shocked Republican Nebraska by winning the home vote, 61,295 to 60,166. But when 3,500 absentee ballots had been opened. Republican Harrison won his fourth term by a narrow...
Undergraduate opinion holds a Harvard upset over Coach Charley Caldwell's undefeated players a definite possibility. It is felt that a hard-fought victory over the "erratic" Crimson team would add more to excitement than an easy sweep...
Williams' coach, Clarence Chaffee, gives Harvard the edge, because of a "well-balanced squad," but expects a "well-played and hard-fought game." He added that his team had outplayed UMass badly, so he was unable to predict how Williams would perform against stiffer opposition...
With a delicacy rare in hard-fought elections, the ballyhoo men in the wagons that roved through Rangoon's streets all one night last week apologized humbly for disturbing the voters' sleep. But their loudspeakers kept on blaring just the same, extolling hour after hour the virtues of Premier U Nu's Anti-Fascist People's Freedom League. Next day, with the help of virtually every available automobile in town, the party workers were as busy as well-trained Tammany heelers getting out the vote. Carloads of voters were hauled to the polls after a brief...