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...area, Hussein would be agreeable to a plebiscite of its Arab population. He thereby appeared ready to cede a chunk of his kingdom and a quarter of his population in return for peace and Arab economic support. But he had hardly begun his Washington rounds when Israel seemed to knock down his offer...
...would also virtually knock them out of the wild Division I scramble for a playoff spot. Harvard currently leads the division with a 9-2 record, while Dartmouth has a mediocre 7-7 mark. The only consolation for the Big Green is that all but the top three teams have at least seven losses, and they could sneak in through the back door, that is if they win tonight...
Ironically, it was Dartmouth who kept Harvard in the Ivy race, by beating Cornell last week, but they could easily knock them out of it tonight. Cornell, seeking an unprecedented eighth straight Ivy crown, handed Harvard its only league loss earlier in the season. The Crimson needs to go into the Cornell game with a win against the Big Green, or the most they could reasonably expect is a share of the title...
...learned some lessons. Chief among them was that it takes money to run a Congressional campaign, and that money comes mostly from conservative businessmen. It's hard to knock the banks and retail merchants and big industries and still collect campaign contributions...
Foreman earned his shot at the title by winning 37 consecutive professional fights, the last 21 straight by knock-outs. Burn in Houston, he was a high school drop-out who began fighting in organized competition after he joined the job Corps, which is how he came to the attention of Sargent Sargent Shriver, now one of his principal backers. In the ring against Frazier and during the last weeks of his preparation for the fight. Foreman won the allegiance of flocks of Jamaicans, who sensed in him something of the same quality that had drawn them to Muhammad...