Word: rivalling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...upped Harvard's record to 12-4 overall, with two nonleague defeats and two crucial EITa losses to Pennsylvania and defending-league champion Columbia. The Crimson, which finished 7-2 last season for third place in EITA standings, still must face rival Princeton, which finished second last year on an 8-1 record...
...after John Maggio's opening leg. Steve Brown held his own, handing off to Joel Peters, who chopped a few feet off of Army's ten-yard lead. Then strong man Leone took off like a bullet, whittling down a ten yard lead, and then passing his Army rival near the finish...
Although ten men and one woman are running against him, Giscard's most important rival in the May 5 balloting is former Premier Jacques Chaban-Delmas, 59. Yet neither Giscard nor Chaban will come in first in that voting. The latest public opinion polls show that the unity candidate of the Socialist and Communist parties, Francois Mitterrand, 57 (TIME, April 29), still holds a commanding lead. Polls late last week gave him 42% of the vote, Giscard 28% and Chaban 24%. But unless Mitterrand wins an absolute majority, which is not likely, he will be forced into a runoff...
Penn comes into the race undefeated, after defeating Yale by a considerable 15-second margin last weekend. Most of the spectators won't be watching how Penn does, however, but rather how Harvard and rival Wisconsin perform in their respective meets, and sizing up next week's sprints from there...
...Hollywood was not unlike Gatsby's West Egg. It could grow as cocksure, as raunchy with all its wealth. It could make pictures with extravagance to rival Gatsby's parties. It could appear to outsiders as walled off and desirous a world, and to insiders it could offer a future as closed. Even further, just as Gatsby intrigued with gamblers and built a bootlegger's paradise, Hollywood's machinery worked more like a crap game than like clockwork. Few moguls were unlike, at least in the way they came by their fortunes, descendants of Gatsby...