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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Florida, voter apathy-together with a torrential rainstorm-may have cost another Johnson man, former (1955-61) Democratic Governor LeRoy Collins, 59, his expected senatorial nomination. While the downpour (2.27 in. in Miami) in the state's populous southern tip kept many of Collins' supporters home, good weather in the rest of the state did nothing to hinder his conservative opponent, Attorney General Earl Faircloth, 47. Collins missed a majority by a mere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Rain & Rebuff | 5/17/1968 | See Source »

...seemed quite sure how many of us there were. Some press accounts claimed 7,000 students had entered the state. Mary McCarthy told reporters it was more like 9,000. In Indianapolis alone, there were 2,500 of us. All Friday night, reports kept reaching headquarters of groups still due to arrive: some kids from central Massachusetts, flying half fare, had been bumped in New York, a bus had broken down in Ohio. At midnight, they were still trying to house 300 unexpected volunteers...

Author: By Gregg J. Kilday, | Title: The Crusade Hits Indiana, Which Is Not The Promised Land | 5/15/1968 | See Source »

...kept widening. A half-length at 500 meters gone, a full length at 1,000. Harvard's time of 6:20.6 meant three seats of open water over Penn and Cornell...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lightweights | 5/13/1968 | See Source »

...victory boosted the squad's record to 7-1 and kept Harvard tied with Army for the Eastern League lead...

Author: By David M. Sloan, | Title: Peters Pitches Three-Hit Shutout As Varsity Nine Crushes Cornell | 5/13/1968 | See Source »

Harvard actually led at the end of the first half, 5-3, but it was only the fantastic net-minding of Ed McCrae which kept the Crimson in the game at all. McCrea could not single-handedly stop the Blue...

Author: By Peter D. Lennon, | Title: Yale Downs Stickmen, 9-5; McCrea Shines in Defeat | 5/13/1968 | See Source »

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