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...ranked Clarkson built its record to an imposing 20-1-1 with a 6-3 triumph over Providence Tuesday, and third-seeded Colby (20-3-2) made it to the semi-finals by virtue of a 7-6 squeaker over R.P.I...
...made perfect by a victory over the favored Crimson today. In the Eastern League, Yale has lost only to Princeton, 8 to 1 (no disgrace, as the Crimson will attest), and Dartmouth, 5 to 4, the day after Harvard had taken the Big Green in another 5-4 squeaker. The Crimson is probably a better team than the Elis, but if there can be such a thing as a psychological edge in a Harvard-Yale contest, today it will be on Yale's side...
...Gulping down mounting returns, network computers giddily upped the odds on Kennedy. But the predictions only made Nixon Campaign Manager Len Hall huff that the computers ought to be tossed into the junkheap. The election, he claimed, was "a squeaker...
...Kennedy's lead piled up, the crowd downstairs cheered more wildly at every Nixon rally, shook the hall with shouts of "We want Nixon." Campaign Chairman Leonard Hall assured all that "this one would be a squeaker." "Who are you going to believe," asked one worker, "those damned lying machines or good old Ike?" Disk Jockey Johnny Grant went to the microphone and bellowed: "Look, this is not a wake. We are not losing, and we are not going to lose." Hope died hard-but by 10 p.m. Pacific time, the somber recognition that victory was getting beyond reach...
...state still to be tallied, Kennedy was just plugging along in front by 80,000. Dawn was beginning to break over Manhattan when the experts, who earlier in the night had been blithely predicting a Kennedy landslide, were cautiously agreeing that the Senator should win-in a squeaker...