Word: race
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Sources close to Massachusetts Hall say that the Corporation has been deeply split over the choice of Lindsay-a graduate of rival college Yale. However, the Harvard administrators reportedly feel that Lindsay's defeat of Norman Mailer '43 in the New York mayoral race may help Mailer lose his race for the Harvard Board of Overseers...
Erich Leinsdorf, retiring director of the Boston Symphony, is a strong favorite in the musician category, but the scientist race is still in doubt. Early talk of Charles DeGauelle as the honorary foreign diplomat has faded, with a member of the Peruvian government moving in as probable winner...
...little awed by the impressive range of subjects on which my neighbor could deliver a fairly erudite opinion. But the last four years have been discouraging for Gilligan watchers, bringing three hard-fought battles and two narrow losses in unfriendly Republican territory. First came the nationally-covered Congressional race with Robert Taft, Jr., heir to the Taft political dynasty in Cincinnati. Then the loss to Saxbe, a nonentity on whom the state GOP lavished millions to defeat the man Republicans considered Ohio's Red threat...
This will be the third time in four years that the lights have made the trip to Henley. In 1966, they won the Thames Cup, but last year the Crimson was eliminated in the first race of the five-day regatta by a good Cornell boat. Harvard was unfortunate enough to be in a lane where the current was not at all favorable, but Joe Bracewell, stroke of the Crimson boat said, "We might have lost anyway...
...only other about from the United States in this year's Henley competition will be M.I.T.'s lightweights. Harvard edged the tenacious Engineers by four seconds in this April's Biglin Bowl race. In the Sprints, M.I.T. was second to the Crimson, but a rather distant second. There is a possibility that Trinity's heavyweights might go to Henley, too, but their entry does not pose a major problem. The quality of the foreign competition this year is unknown...