Word: runner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Like the crowd of Democratic contenders out to upset Front Runner Edmund Muskie, Wallace has had his eye on the Florida sunshine since the state legislature voted last year to authorize a presidential primary. The Florida contest, on March 14, follows the opener in New Hampshire by just one week. With Maine's Muskie considered unbeatable in neighboring New Hampshire, the remaining Democrats have focused on Florida as the first opportunity to strike at his support: every major Democratic candidate will have a spot on the Florida ballot...
...absence of several valuable people greatly weakened the Crimson effort. One event in which this was evident was the 600. There, Huskie Paul Horrigan--who holds Northeastern's 600 record--set the pace, winning the event ahead of Harvard's Nick Leone. Harvard 600 runner Rick Melvoin did not compete owing to a battle with...
...bring pressure to bear on Congress and the Administration to grant amnesty, and the American Civil Liberties Union is opening an office in New York this week to coordinate their efforts. The question may be one of the emotional issues of the presidential campaign. Though the Democratic front runner, Senator Edmund Muskie, believes that the matter should not even be discussed until the war is over, other Democratic contenders, Senator George McGovern and New York's Mayor John Lindsay, have taken positions in direct opposition to Nixon. McGovern has announced that if he is elected, he will grant amnesty...
Most disastrous debut of a movie star in a series: Shirley MacLaine in SHIRLEY'S WORLD (ABC). Runner up: Anthony Quinn in MAN AND THE CITY...
...Bobby Moore. Oregon. 6 ft. 2 in.. 212 Ibs. In the year of the runner. Marinaro ran farther than anyone, setting no fewer than five N.C.A.A. rushing records. Mindful of the success of Yale's Calvin Hill with the Dallas Cowboys, the scouts discount the fact that the Big Red's Machine played in the supposedly soft Ivy With every defense keying on explain the scouts, he had "to have something special to compile those≪ records." The experts praise his durability and elusiveness, as well as "tha∧t l∧something that...