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...Wallace is satisfied with his "spoiler" role this year. He thinks his campaign will have enough impact on the nation to enable him to mount a formidable challenge to the major parties in 1972. Dreaming about a confrontation with Sen. Robert F. Kennedy in four years, Wallace likes to watch the countryside pass beneath his plane as he flies off on his campaign tours--"Just think, someday I'll be President of all that...
Eight-place Winthrop tried valiantly to play the role of spoiler in yesterday's game. On a cold and rainy day they almost bettered the first-place team...
Coach Bruce Munro, who was fairly unhappy about his team's showing this past weekend at Penn (where Harvard was whipped, 3-0), is understandably pleased to see the recoveries his walking wounded have made. But he doesn't see more than a spoiler role for his squad the rest...
...Spoiler. Ford's new series, called the Torino, is an effort to cash in on Detroit's growing emphasis on sporty styling and intermediate size. Marketed with the Fairlane line, the Torino features the elongated hood and abbreviated rear end that has caught on in the specialty cars; it comes in hardtop, sedan and station wagon, as well as a racier "GT" model equipped with a 210-h.p. V-8 (engines with up to 390 h.p. are optional). The standard Fair-lanes have also been streamlined, their bodies stretched out by a full...
...toward eliminating the car's boxy appearance. Coming in for the biggest changes at Chevrolet is the Corvette. Rakishly restyled, with a body 7 in. longer than present models', the '68 Corvette has high-backed seats, hideaway windshield wipers and jet-age gizmos like the "spoiler"-a raised airflow deflector that adds a decorative touch to the rear deck, also helps reduce the danger of spin-outs at high speeds...