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...Fullback Ken O'Connell took the opening kick-off down to the Bucknell 35. Two plays later halfback Ray Horn-blower flicked an option pass to Gatto who scampered to the 17. A piling-on penalty moved the ball to the nine. Tommy Wynne came in for a field goal when the Harvard attack faltered...

Author: By Scott W. Jacobs, | Title: Crimson Crushes Bucknell, 59-0, In Biggest Mismatch of the Decade | 10/7/1968 | See Source »

...then the normally explosive Harvard attack sputtered and couldn't increase its lead. The Crimson was stunned out of its lethargy by B.U.'s first goal and came back at 2:14 of the second quarter. Outside right Gerry Montero took the kick-off, raced down the side-lines with the ball, and centered a perfect pass to Bogovich, who headed the ball into the B.U. nets...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Booters Nudge B.U., 3-2 On Goal in Last Quarter | 10/7/1968 | See Source »

...Chicago, he, too, is regarded by millions of voters as a strong law-and-order man who, as President, would "do something" about rising crime rates, unsafe streets, noisy demonstrators and restless blacks. Hubert Humphrey is desperately attempting to straddle the issue, though in the text of his campaign kick-off speech in Washington this week he accused Nixon and the G.O.P. of "openly competing with Mr. Wallace for the votes of people who, at very best, want to put the brakes on our progress toward full opportunity." The frenetic efforts by all the candidates to get on the right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: RISING VOICE OF THE RIGHT | 9/13/1968 | See Source »

...Honorable Howard W. Fitzpatrick, High Sheriff of Middlesex County, was there. Some said the dinner had originally been planned as a kick-off for Sullivan's campaign to succeed the supposedly retiring Fitzpatrick as Sheriff, but when "Howie" decided to run again, the "do" became just a "tribute to a good man." Fitzpatrick wished Sullivan "God's choicest blessings." In return, Walter reminded the crowd that "I'm one of Howie's campaign managers. He's running for re-election--don't forget that...

Author: By William R. Galeota, | Title: The Mayor's Dinner | 5/1/1968 | See Source »

...kick-off rally for the referendum on the ordinance, Gray paid tribute to the resident committee which drafted the ordinance. "All the content came from them. If you went to Wellesley, with all those junior executives, you couldn't produce a better ordinance," he said...

Author: By William R. Galeota, | Title: Residents Vote to Control Model City Program Here | 4/22/1968 | See Source »

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