Word: packs
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...Iowa last week, Goldwater was hoping for at least 14 of the state's 24 convention delegates as 3,500 Republicans poured into Des Moines for a state convention. For six months, Barry's boys had been working to pack the convention with pro-Goldwater Republicans, seemed to be making considerable headway...
...Crimson scored 16 goals against Williams Wednesday, and 13 against Cornell in their first Ivy game. Junior Attackman Dick Ames is among the league leaders in scoring with 11 points in two games, but he isn't the high scorer on the team--midfielder Tink Gunnoe leads the pack with 30 points overall to 27 for Ames. Lou Williams, with 21, is third on Bruce Munro's varsity ten followed by captain Pete Wood and sophomore attackman Ted Leary...
From the moment last July when Chicago Businessman Charles Harting Percy, 44, announced that he would try for the Illinois Republican gubernatorial nomination, he ran as if he were pursued by a pack of bright young men and an angry board of directors. Years of high-speed climbing in corporate life had conditioned him well. At 23 he was a board member of Chicago's camera-making Bell & Howell Co., at 29 he was president, at 41 board chairman. As it turned out, Chuck Percy's pace was well suited to politics too. Last week...
...rage on Zanzibar these days is the "packing party." While one team of British civil servants busily crates furniture, clothing and household effects, another helps polish off the leftover gin and lime. Then the two teams switch roles, muttering ritual phrases such as "Bloody Babu" or "Hanga be hanged." The game has gained popularity for the best-or worst-of reasons. By order of the young nation's autocratic, 30-man Revolutionary Council, the 108 British civil servants and families who remain on Zanzibar have until April 30 to clear out; and, thanks to the Communist-run Carpenter...
...Saturday's scrimmage and yesterday's practice the forwards were extraordinarily strong within the pack. They seemed to have mastered the wheel method for taking the ball, and they were packing very well in loose scrums. However, they were sluggish in following the backs. Veteran second-row man Mike Foley attributed this to pre-season inexperience and poor conditioning...