Word: picks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Thomas started playing soccer in Gambia when he was five, and because he was one of the smallest in the pick-up games, his first position was goalie. As he got bigger he moved to fullback and then halfback, and he didn't become a regular lineman until he was fifteen, when the Augustinian Soccer Club, the champions of the first division amateur league, decided that they needed another forward...
...Nick's still survives, obviously no longer a white tie and championship team, but a respectable pick-up team composed largely of ex Ivy League players. Harvard, Princeton and Yale graduates still dominate the St. Nick's roster, as they did fifty years ago, but of the eleven H-Y-P players on the team, nine are products of mediocre to miserable Yale and Princeton teams...
...perhaps you are more interested in the personal competition of one of the individual sports (fencing, squash, swimming, or wrestling)? We have so few writers, that we can let you pick any of these sports and immediately start assisting in the coverage of the winter varsity schedule...
...registration advantage, makes him a politician's dream here. He is probably the only Democrat who could beat Nixon in the state. Chappaquiddick would hurt, but California, unlike many other states, has a tolerance for personal idiosyncrasies, and the incident would not prove fatal to him. Kennedy would certainly pick up Hawaii, and he would then need only one of the other eleven states to carry the region...
...clearly a shoo-in, while Rehnquist was considered somewhat vulnerable. Nixon loyalists on the committee parried the maneuver. After five days of hearings and 827 pages of testimony, they arranged under the rules to have Powell's nomination also put off for one week. Then the deliberations will pick up where they left...