Word: losers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Happy Loser. Last week Ronnie made good Harvey's threat. The boy turned up as a transfer student at U.C.L.A., U. of C.'s arch rival. U.C.L.A., his stepfather explained, has "courses more conducive to his learning." In the process of changing schools, although he has merely switched to another branch of the same university, Ronnie has lost a year's eligibility as a football player, but Harvey Knox is willing to pay the penalty in return for a chance to see Ronnie perform for two years under U.C.L.A. Coach "Red" Sanders. "I like him," said Harvey...
...loser in the deal, Coach Waldorf, took the blow philosophically, even left a candle in the window in the event Ronnie Knox changed his mind again."Sure we'd take Ronnie back," said Pappy. "But let's transfer the old man to U.C.L.A...
...Loser was the Westcoast Transmission Co., Ltd., of Calgary, Ont., headed by Canadian Oilman Frank McMahon. He wanted to bring gas to the Northwest through a 930-mile pipeline from Canada's Peace River section in northern Alberta and British Columbia, where his Pacific Petroleums has sunk millions into a huge, new gas field. Losers also were the Canadian provinces of Alberta and British Colum bia, which had hoped for big, new indus trial developments along the gas line. Cried one provincial cabinet minister: "This is disastrous...
...free-enterprising Liberal government hung onto power this week. From the hot white sands of Woomera to the waterfalls of Tasmania, across a vast and booming land almost the size of the U.S., 4,800,000 Aussies cast their (compulsory) ballots and divided them so evenly that Labor, the loser, actually got some 200,000 more votes than the victors. It was only because the electoral gerrymanders favor rural constituencies (where the Liberal coalition is strong) that the government kept control of the House of Representatives by at least seven seats. But the margin, though narrow, was enough: Prime Minister...
Captain Steve Gottleib scored 6-0, 6-1 at the first singles position, while Cal Place, Doug Gardner, Barry Boehm, Dave Terris, and Charlie Edwards also won for the freshmen. Second man Hen Heckscher was the only singles loser. He was defeated...