Word: losers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard's football team has reached a crucial point in the season. With strong will-power and outstanding individual performances the squad could become a cohesive unit and win the remaining six football games. With any less effort, it could dissipate into a consistent loser...
Leverett, winner of two games and loser to no one, stands at the top in House football, after two possible champions, played each other to a scoreless tie yesterday and another had its first contest postponed...
...devastated suburbs of Barcelona, where floods had churned a path of death and debris, a contest for political popularity was fought last week. The loser: handsome Prince Juan Carlos, son of Pretender Don Juan (TIME cover, June 22), either of whom may some day rule Spain. The winner: wily Dictator Francisco Franco, who showed off a few of the qualities that have kept him in power for 25 years...
...nine wins and four losses, Whitey could be counted on not to get flustered no matter whom he faced-the Dodgers and Maury Wills or the Giants and Willie Mays. But the Yanks hardly rated as long-odds favorites. In a drab pennant race that saw a perennial loser (the Washington Senators, now Minnesota Twins) come in second, and a baby in the league (the Los Angeles Angels) take third, they could not even win 100 ball games, while both the Giants and the Dodgers reached the century mark against tougher competition...
...Jeep-borne patrol of 20-not 500-Gurkha troops. Though the U.N. commander admitted that "someone might have been hit," Acting Secretary-General U Thant's office in Manhattan called the incident "a cynical effort to gain a propaganda advantage." In any case, the U.N. was the loser. U Thant's plan would have forced Katanga to integrate its 12,000 soldiers with Congo forces and, still more important, to turn over half its rich mining revenues to Premier Cyrille Adoula's central government. Without Katanga, Adoula's regime faces the prospect of a restive army...