Word: lonelies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...undisputed personal fief; the Texas legislature kept it the sixth smallest in the U.S. (its population is 213,374; by comparison, a neighboring district contains 951,527 Texans) to make fence-tending easy for the aging Speaker, who died last November at 79. Six candidates, including a lone Republican, campaigned to succeed him in a special election. Nobody polled a majority, so the two who led the field will face each other in a runoff late this month...
Meanwhile, the basketball team (four wins, two losses) enters the tournament of the University of Washington in St. Louis as the lone Eastern representative. The six-college invitational hoop tourney will be played Thursday, Friday, and Saturday...
...Lone Dornier. Strongest of all the roadblocks was established on the airport road a day later; there, a company of Katanga's paracommandos cut the highway with three armored cars and several 60-mm. mortars. At least three white men in civilian clothes were with them, apparently in command; they seemed to be part of Tshombe's force of hired Belgians, Rhodesians, British and South Africans, which the Katanga government only a week earlier had said was disbanded and out of the country...
Fast-skating sophomore Ike Ikauniks, brought up on the trail from the Harvard J.V.'s, provided the lone third period tally on a 25 foot shot that eluded van Gerbig...
...Crimson sextet struck twice more as each of the next two periods. Bowdoin's lone tally came in the final period...