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Yale has already clinched its eighth Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League crown in the last ten years, and today's meet should serve mostly as a springboard to upcoming national tournaments. The Crimson has lost two league meets and will probably complete its season with a 5-3 record for a fourth-place finish...
...month the G.O.P. in five states-California, New York, Delaware, Indiana and Iowa-gained control of both houses of legislatures that were formerly split. Particularly hard hit was California Democrat Jesse Unruh, who had hoped to use his post as speaker of the state's assembly as a springboard to the governorship in 1970 but now faces at least two years in the humbler and less visible job of minority leader...
...labor-civil rights coalition forged during the strike may soon flex its organizing muscle on behalf of Memphis' Negro hospital workers and Negro teachers. Memphis, in fact, has become so symbolically significant to the Negro cause, that Abernathy hopes to use it as a Deep South springboard for King's postponed Poor People's March on Washington next month...
WHILE many militant blacks responded to the death of Martin Luther King Jr. primarily with fury, the Rev. Warner Traynham remained composed, preparing sorrowfully to turn the event into a springboard for serious civil rights action...
...aides warned him against risking his prestige by fighting for a civil rights bill because the odds were 3 to 2 against its passage, he asked quietly: "What's the presidency for?" That brief remark spoke volumes about his desire to use the office not simply as a springboard for self-aggrandizement but for the nation's progress...