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...good as Secretariat may be, he still has to prove his worth to Sham and his trainer, Frank ("Pancho") Martin. Before the Wood, Martin brazenly and unsuccessfully offered any takers the opportunity to bet $5,000 against his horse in a head-to-head contest with Secretariat. A Cuban who trains Sham for New York Contractor Sigmund Sommer, Martin is banking on the fact that no son of Bold Ruler has ever won a Derby, or any Triple Crown race for that matter. The Derby distance of 1¼ miles is too great, some believe, for Bold Ruler...
While the head-to-head confrontation of Radcliffe and Philadelphia has been billed as a classic struggle throughout the week before the race, Radcliffe wasted little time seizing control of the encounter...
Billed as the first head-to-head confrontation between Allende's Marxist coalition and Chile's anti-Socialist forces, the election-for all 150 Chamber of Deputies seats and 25 of the 50 Senate seats-turned out to be a sort of stalemate. That benefited Allende. While his coalition picked up only 43.4% of the vote (v. 54.7% for the opposition Democratic Confederation), it gained six seats in the lower chamber and two in the Senate. This still leaves the opposition parties in control but gives them far less than the two-thirds majority needed...
...three teams, which went through the entire course of the championships locked in a very tight head-to-head fight for the runner-up spot, began the evening with just nine points separating the second-day leader Harvard from fourth-place N.C. State. The Wolfpack, faltering early in the final evening, closed with a rush, picking up a crucial first in the 3-meter dive and a runaway record win in the 400-yd. freestyle relay to catch the Crimson at the finish...
What makes the meet extremely difficult to predict is the balance and potential of the Crimson and B.C. Most events will involve head-to-head competition and thus the scores could fluctuate wildly depending on which team wins...