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...Shirley Babashoff: any young American who wins four silver medals (or even competes) in the premier sports event in the world is certainly not a "loser...
...Bears have been a perennial NFL loser since 1967, the last year they were coached by founding father George Halas--and the last time they enjoyed a winning season...
...enjoyed by the Democrats in New York. But if Ford, as expected, rolls to a quick victory, no one expects Reagan or many of his followers to protest that it was not a fair fight. Republicans are already speculating that Reagan, a team player, would be a graceful loser, campaign aggressively for Ford, and that he might even accept a post in his Cabinet if the President wins...
...also been walkouts and bannings; Italy and France pulled out of the fencing in the 1912 Stockholm Games after a dispute over the rules. In 1956 Egypt, Iraq and Lebanon did not compete because of the Suez crisis. In the 1920 Antwerp Games and the 1948 London Games, the loser nations from the world wars were barred. Following the Bolshevik Revolution, the Soviet Union stayed out of Olympic competition until the 1952 Helsinki Games. But never before have strictly pragmatic political considerations, as in the case of Canada v. Taiwan, been thrust upon the Games, and the consequences are explosive...
...with little on his mind but fallout radiation (Nehru would remark later, "...a very strange man...all he wants to talk about is bomb shelters"), an issue which carried the implication that Eisenhower had been soft with the Russians. He entered the campaign an outsider and left a bad loser--in his final declaration of non-candidacy, Rockefeller avoided endorsing the only serious candidate left in the field, Richard Nixon. In the minds of GOP pros, Rockefeller was forever marked as a man whose personal ambition took precedence over party unity...