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Then, Columbia discovered their star forward, Fred Sock, who moves like a "whistling chaser" firecracker, would be marked one-on-one by Matt Bowyer. Throughout the game, the Lions could not buy a break from the refs. And on top of all that, there was this guy Nelson...
...sophomore returning from a leave of absence, Lee Nelson came off the bench Saturday to spark a rusty Crimson offense to a pair of goals as Harvard picked up a 2-1 victory in its season opener...
Before coach George Ford substituted the unknown Nelson into the game midway through a boring first half, the play had wandered back and forth and was somewhat sloppy. Ho hum, Crimson goalie Fred Herold had made three or four great saves, but that was to be expected of the talented junior. Chris Saunders was moving the ball well behind the Harvard forward line, but few solid scoring chances developed. The crisp passing game Ford would like to see from his players had, for the most part, turned a bit soggy...
Late in the week, Ford assembled John Connally, who had turned down the job of heading the Republican National Committee, Vice President Nelson Rockefeller and Dole for strategy sessions. Connally later told newsmen that he has detected "fear" and "uncertainty" about Carter, and Ford quickly seconded him, indicating that he will try to exploit this feeling. Connally also made light of Ford's gap in the polls, declaring that it was "no hill for a stepper." Ford added that he believed the American people wanted "somebody with experience" conducting foreign policy, not "somebody whose name they didn...
Consumer Advocate Ralph Nader has long been assailed by conservative politicians and officers of corporations that have been gored by his crusading zeal. At the Republican National Convention in Kansas City, Vice President Nelson Rockefeller made him the target of one of history's most labored puns (he claimed that Candidate Jimmy Carter's appearance at a Nader gathering meant that Carter was trying "to pass himself off as one of the Nader-day saints"). Now the lean, intense folk hero is coming under fire from a few of his former admirers-liberals who applaud his service...