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...even if the team that he quarterbacks a loser tomorrow, he'll still have consolation in the fact that Otolski and Marian are still rolling back in the Bend. They finished 9-1 this year and fourth in the State. Their only less was to St. Joseph's High of South Bend...
...matter how the race for New York's 20th District came out, the loser was bound to be a liberal woman ?but then so was the winner. Deprived of her original constituency by redistricting, Congresswoman Bella Abzug, 52, first tried to run for the 20th in the Democratic primary against a popular incumbent, William Fitts Ryan. She lost, but Ryan died shortly thereafter, and the Democratic Party chose Abzug as its candidate. Ryan's widow Priscilla immediately entered the race for her husband's seat on the Liberal ticket, and a bitter race was on. Ryan charged that Abzug...
...aides have almost totally reshaped AMC. They sold its financing and Kelvinator subsidiaries, neither of which showed promise of earning enough to justify the amount of capital tied up in it. Then Chapin bought the famous Jeep line from Kaiser Industries for $70 million. Jeep had been a money loser for Kaiser, but AMC made it profitable, steering it into the recreational-vehicle market, which Chapin figures has doubled in the past three years. New versions of the original four-wheel drive machine soon began appearing as pickups, campers and station wagons. Jeeps now account...
Channel 5's miscalculation was as close as Hicks and her Irish pols got to victory. Although the final tally showed Hicks a loser by only 2000 votes, the congresswoman suffered devastating defeats in the black wards, and secured only a modest 2500-vote margin in Ward 7--her home precinct...
Most important, McGovern looked like a loser for the first time, and this added to the troubles he was having in uniting the Democratic Party behind his candidacy, Kearns explained, "McGovern's best chance of winning back the bosses was to keep piling up the momentum...