Word: runner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...whom does the signal serve? The endorsement was immensely important to Front Runner Muskie, who can now lay claim to the support of the many party sheiks who had been waiting to see what Kennedy's plans were. As one highly placed Democrat sees it, however, the chief beneficiary of Tunney's endorsement will not be Ed but Ted. In this view, Kennedy has coldly concluded that Nixon cannot be beaten in 1972. Therefore he chooses to leave the field to Muskie, who now has the nomination all but locked...
...race was Bill Sirois, a marine supply dealer from Fort Lauderdale, Fla., whose sleek 21-ft. boat with its "tunnel" hull-an airfoil design that allows the craft to ride free of the chop on a cushion of air-was powered by twin 200 h.p. Mercury engines. He outdistanced Runner-Up Reggie Fountain Jr. by a 12-mile margin to take the $18,000 first prize. In all, Sirois all but flew more than 660 miles at the average rate of 82.5 m.p.h.-nearly 3 m.p.h. faster than the record he set as last year's Havasu winner...
...however, the entire galaxy could be filled with chatter between advanced civilizations, transmitted by a technique still undiscovered on earth. Says Carl Sagan: "We may be very much like the inhabitants of an isolated valley in New Guinea who communicate with villages in the next valley by drum and runner but have no idea that there is a vast international radio traffic going around them, over them and through them...
Cross Country captain Mike Koerner has been named to the All-Ivy cross country team. A senior, he is the only Crimson runner on the squad...
...Harris poll last week showed him the first choice of rank-and-file Democrats, leading Muskie by 26% to 19%, with Humphrey following at 16%. The Gallup poll, in a two-way contest, had Muskie the front runner, ahead of Kennedy, 50% to 39%, among Democratic voters...