Word: sam
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Niederhoffer, captain of the 1964 Harvard squash team, won the USSRA Championship in New York yesterday, defeating former champ Sam Howe in the finals...
Niederhoffer had earlier downed Ralphe Howe, Sam Howe's younger brother and another former champ, in semi-finals, 3-2. In the past three years, Niederhoffer has reached the semi-finals twice and the finals once, he had never won the title...
...fact, the Governor had already pulled away from his only potential Democratic challenger. The same poll gave him a 33.1% lead over Los Angeles' Mayor Sam Yorty, a longtime foe, who greeted Brown's announcement with a four-page tirade castigating the Governor for everything from allowing "delay, confusion and influence peddling" in state affairs to letting leftists and "cynical mercenaries" take over the party. Countered Brown: "Mayor Yorty made a similar vicious attack on President John F. Kennedy, and that's all I have to say about that...
...after the Communists' five weeks' grace, the flak flew thicker over virtually every target. Moreover, reconnaissance showed that Ho Chi Minh's men had hastily implanted ten new SAM sites, bringing to 60 the number of nests across the country able to cradle Ho's Russian rocket launchers. Even the North Vietnamese air force took advantage of the free skies to give its pilots some hasty refresher work in the MIG fighters that Hanoi has largely refrained from using so far. Hanoi also used the hiatus to pump perhaps 6,000 fresh troops down...
Other contenders are Yale Graduates Ralph and Sam Howe and the ageless Henri Salaun...