Word: pre
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...other two pre-season contenders, Cornell and Yale, are out of the race and must settle for the role of spoilers today. Dartmouth has not won a part of the championship yet, but there is little doubt that it is only a matter of time, no matter how worked up Penn is today...
...remoteness between Yovicsin and his players. A mild-mannered man with a subdued sense of humor, he sometimes cracks a grin which might widen into a smile. At games he more often scowls up and down the sidelines. Yovicsin does not have any pretensions of being an inspirational coach. Pre-game speeches are brief and unemotional, and if anybody attempts to arouse the team, it is either a player or an assistant coach...
...midterm election is always hard to assess, Johnson could hardly absolve himself of blame for the Democrats' reverses. His performance the week before the elections was probably the least attractive of any during his three years in office. He trotted Defense Secretary Robert McNamara out to announce a pre-election draft cut that struck many a voter as a blatantly political move. He issued favorable economic figures to blunt the inflation issue (Pollster Lou Harris reported afterward that it had proved a particularly injurious factor for the Democrats nonetheless). He took a savage swipe at Nixon, thereby giving the "chronic...
False Chins. Haunted by memories of the pre-1950 hordes that stripped much of Australia of its vegetation and caused sheepherders and farmers an annual loss of half a billion dollars, Australian scientists are now desperately attempting to forestall another population explosion by rabbits-a pair of which, under moderate conditions, can be responsible for 9,000,000 descendants in three years...
Scheer spent the pre-election weekend in Cambridge, and was wined, dined, and shown off by Harvard's own eager, aspiring radicals. He confronted -- somewhat unwillingly -- audiences of skeptical, composed undergraduates, and convinced many that the "New Politics" should be taken seriously...