Word: spoilers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mississippi (24): Humphrey can count on 24 reluctant supporters unless Wallace proves a spoiler and gets them...
...make: that Gene has become a stand-in for Hubert. If he dropped out of the race, McCarthy told a TV interviewer, he would prefer Humphrey to Kennedy. Realizing his error-many of his anti-Administration supporters would leave him if they thought he was merely playing the spoiler's role to block Kennedy-the Minnesotan later hedged his statement, then took a jab at reporters who refused to accept his backtracking. "The people who are with me who seem to be hippies are really the national press," he told an audience at Southwestern Oregon Community College in Coos...
...Cadets have been a spoiler for the Crimson ever since Harvard won the first Harvard-Army dual meet of the year last December, 68-40. The West Pointers had been regarded as a mild favorite on the basis of their victories in the 1967 spring dual meet and Heptagonals...
Then early in March, Army reassumed its spoiler role, edging Harvard out of the Indoor Heptagonal title, 62-53. The Crimson was still in the running until the final two relays when a dropped baton by the Harvard mile relay team threw the Crimson out of the running...
...House-Senate conference, where its fate is less certain. Ironically, the House passed an open-housing bill two years ago, only to have it blocked by the Senate. Now it is the House, much more conservative than two years ago, that may prove to be the spoiler...