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Coaches of both squads predict a Crimson slaughter, figuring Harvard's experience and depth of talent will age... be too much for the inept Engineers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Racquetmen Start Title Drive Tonight | 12/4/1972 | See Source »

...close to 70% of Virginia's presidential vote, and one result was an unexpected defeat for Moderate Democrat William B. Spong Jr., 52. Spong had led Republican William L Scoff, 57, for much of the campaign. One reason: Scott, a three-term Fairfax Congressman, was presumably so inept that the Washington Post stoned him for "unimpressive service" in the House and "shallow understanding" of the Senate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Some New Boys in the Old Club | 11/20/1972 | See Source »

...worked up even a small measure of suspense. There was plenty of rancorous rhetoric. The New York Times's Tom Wicker lashed out bitterly at Nixon as a preacher of falsehoods whose pious pledges are "obscene"; just as relentlessly, Syndicated Columnists Rowland Evans and Robert Novak belittled the "ludicrously inept" Democratic campaign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign That Was: Some Bright Spots | 11/20/1972 | See Source »

...Crimson, which trounced both a Dartmouth (7.2) and Columbia (8-4), should have no trouble adding Princeton to its list of Ivy victims. The Tigers, like both the Big Green and the Lions, are ineffective offensively and woefully inept defensively...

Author: By Charles B. Straus, | Title: Harvard Booters to Play Weak Tiger Team Today | 11/11/1972 | See Source »

...North Carolina like a detergent. His campaign consultant has divided the state into six "media markets" and thoroughly researched voter complaints in each market. In the eastern and mountainous western portions of the state, as a result, Bowles commiserates over bad farm roads and promises to revamp an inept highway commission. In Greensboro he emphasizes education, and in Charlotte, taxes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Elections '72: Hard Battles for a Different Job | 11/6/1972 | See Source »

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