Word: runners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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RISE for Romney. The youthful G.O.P. campaigning style was echoed after the election by a new, partywide buoyancy?particularly concerning 1968. As the current front runner, Romney has abandoned his old coyness, last week expressed frank pleasure "that people are talking in those terms." Already, 20 Romney clubs are being formed in states across the nation; in Reagan's backyard, an outfit called RISE (Romney in Sixty-Eight) has begun soliciting Los Angeles businessmen for financial support. Less than 24 hours after...
...typical keep-'em-guessing Johnsonian performance. Boyd, who was given no hint of his elevation, had been offered a $100,000-a-year job as head of the Association of American Railroads. Until Johnson pulled out Boyd's name, the front runner in the press guess-stakes had been White House Adviser Joseph A. Califano Jr., who with Boyd helped push the bill through Congress...
...Paris' Olympia music hall, where he holds the record for most performances, his visitors included Mme. Georges Pompidou, wife of the French Premier, Academician François Mauriac, Track Star Michel Jazy, and Bernard Gavoty, Paris' leading music critic. The tributes covered as broad a range. Distance Runner Jazy, who knows something about breath control, remarked in awe that Becaud "must have lungs like Atlas." Mauriac groped for a flossier figure: "One thinks when listening to Becaud of a powerful motor turning at its maximum, and the most curious thing about this machine running full speed is that...
Other tackle games include a play-off between Harvard's second place Eliot and Yale's runner-up, Edwards. Eliot won last year's contest over Edwards on a last minute pass from quarterback Bunk Reed...
Gordon McKusick of Cornell, also hurt for most of the year, was the only Ivy League runner to beat Hardin. McKusick placed tenth, seven seconds ahead of the man who had whipped him twice this season...