Word: momentum
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Harvard has not wrestled since January reading period, but Coach Lee feels that the team is ready after two-a-day practices all last week. A sizable victory today would place Harvard alongside Yale as the top team in New England. A big win would also initiate momentum toward crucial Ivy clashes with the Eli, Princeton, and Cornell later in the month...
...five months since Senator Edmund Muskie started going all out to get the Democratic presidential nomination, his candidacy has steadily gained momentum. There were some rough months for Muskie when he ran short of campaign cash. Now, however, he looks increasingly like the man who will grab the brass ring at Miami Beach in July. In Las Vegas, Soothsayer Jimmy ("the Greek") Snyder is giving 2 to 5 odds that Muskie will be the nominee...
...Parliament to pass a number of sweeping constitutional amendments that gave to all the republics almost complete autonomy in economic, cultural and administrative matters. Later Croatia was allowed to keep a far larger share of the foreign currency that it earns from Western tourists. By then, however, a dangerous momentum had developed. To pressure the central government into making greater concessions, Croatia's Communist leaders-notably Miko Tripalo and Dr. Savka Dabčevič-Kučar, the woman Central Committee chief-allied themselves with groups making extremist demands for what would have amounted to secession. Pockets...
Harvard traded baskets with the Tigers for the first five minutes, but then Brian Taylor. Princeton's All-American candidate, blocked a Crimson shot, scored on a driving lay-up, and hit a fast break tip-in. Princeton had gained the momentum of the game early, and Harvard spent the rest of the game trying to get it from them...
Fleet for the '80s. The Soviets are developing great momentum. At present, they are outbuilding the U.S. in naval vessels by the impressive ratio of 8 to 1. In addition, major Polish and East German builders are producing merchant ships for Russia, and the Soviets have ordered others from foreign yards from Japan to The Netherlands. In the frontline, high-sea naval squadrons, some classes of ship are being replaced by more advanced designs after only eight years of operational duty. The Kresta II cruisers (see picture box, next page), whose design is much admired by U.S. naval architects...