Word: retains
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...distinctive hard-surface courts, the Crimson bowed, 5-4, for its only loss of the season. Poor old coach Barnaby. Only a rout of Penn by Princeton and a Harvard win over the Tigers averted a total tragedy. Harry Parker's crew had worse lunch when it tried to retain the Adams Cup for the sixth year in a row. Penn eased to a 1 1/2 length victory, and it seemed that the world might come to an end after...
...round. 6-3, 6-3, and from that point, the singles became a Harvard practice session. Crimson captain John Levin whipped teammate Terry Oxford, who had played beautiful tennis all weekend, 6-1, 6-4 to gain the finals, then defeated Jarvis 6-4, 3-6, 6-3 to retain his individual singles title...
...State Factor. Congress' sudden sympathy for reform reflects that growing public desire for a change. What shape a proposed amendment will finally take is not yet clear, however. Besides the House Judiciary Committee's plan for a direct election, there are also schemes to retain electoral votes in some form. One such plan would divide each state's electoral votes among the candidates according to the popular-vote breakdown. Another would elect members of the Electoral College by local districts...
Beyond the extra $1.8 billion a year in spendable income that Americans stand to retain if the surtax is reduced, only a few of Nixon's reforms would benefit the middle-income taxpayer. To help the poor, the Administration proposes a "lowincome allowance." It would reduce the taxes now paid by the 5,300,000 Americans (of a total of 26 million) whose annual incomes are near the official poverty line ($3,535 for a family of four). Some 2,000,000 families would be excused from taxes altogether. Above the poverty line, low-income persons and families would...
PRINCETON, N.J. April 26--The Harvard tennis team upset a powerful Princeton squad, 5-4, today to retain a chance for first place in the Eastern Intercollegiate Tennis Association. The netmen are now counting on tre Tigers to beat Penn, so that all three teams can tie for first place, as they did last year...