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...civil-rights official, Frank Cronin: "Virtually all of the court decisions that have ordered goals or quotas or affirmative action as remedies have been based on a judicial finding of past discrimination. The university didn't produce any history of discrimination. Tactically, this case is kind of a loser." Despite such objections, the university's board of regents voted at week's end to seek an authoritative ruling by filing its appeal to the Supreme Court...
...Loser. Bob Moore, Tampa's starting tight end, played under Ralston at Stanford. "I'm not getting in between the two coaches," he said. "I'm used to winning. I won in college and I won with the Oakland Raiders and this is just awful for me. We lose every week and the group experience is negative. Sometimes I feel as though I were on the aft deck of the Lusitania...
...running was the result of a tragedy: the attractive, popular Democratic primary winner, Rep. Jerry Litton, died with his family in the crash of a small plane carrying them to a victory celebration. As a fillin, Hearnes, who had been a distant second in the primary, looked like a loser from the start. He had only about $151,000 in campaign funds for the battle with Danforth, who spent $600,000. Forced to scrimp, Hearnes served as his own campaign manager, advance man, and even driver...
...Another loser was Missouri Democrat Morgan Maxfield, 35, who ran a campaign in which he gave voters the impression that he was 1) a self-made man, 2) a graduate of Harvard Business School and 3) a swinging bachelor. During the closing weeks of the campaign it was disclosed that Maxfield 1) was the son of a prosperous Texas physician, 2) had only attended a six-week business course at Harvard and 3) was married and the father of two children. He was defeated by Republican Thomas Coleman, 33, a lawyer and state representative...
...Dump Johnson" movement in protest against the Viet Nam War in 1968 but lost his seat in 1970?and has been losing ever since. He was defeated by the same man who beat him in 1974: Republican John Wydler, 52, who described Lowenstein as "an ultralibeal, a constant loser and a notorious carpetbagger." Another comeback effort fell short in North Carolina, where former National League Pitcher Wilmer ("Vinegar Bend") Mizell, 45, a Republican Congressman from 1968 to 1974, was defeated again by Democrat Stephen L. Neal, 42, an heir to the R.J. Reynolds tobacco fortune...