Word: tafts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Most of the ten new faces belong to freshmen, almost all of whom gained experience on skates in high school. Although Susan Newell--a hot defensive prospect--will be sidelined tonight with muscle injuries, she and fellow freshmen Leonie Glen, Deb Taft and Megan Berthold should beef up the Crimson defense...
...harkens back to 1940, when dark horse Wendell Wilkie's Republican nomination "took a lot of hard work from people trying to stop [Sen. Robert] Taft" and when President Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 fought off opponents of his quest for an unprecedented third term. The election "represented a real debate in both parties," May says. And for Verba, the 1936 Roosevelt-Landon campaign is memorable "not simply because I like who won the election, but because the two parties had substantive differences. The public elected one side and gave it a strong mandate for social change...
After transferring from Darien High School to the Taft School, which Santos-Buch calls a big turning point in his life, he almost immediately stepped into starring roles in three sports, playing safety and halfback in football, point guard on the hardcourt, and shortstop and second on the diamond. He soon was elected captain of the Taft baseball squad, and in his senior year broke most of the school baseball records...
Even as it levels death blows at the over-confident, New Hampshire gives an incalculable boost--in publicity and attention, credibility and money--to candidates who emerge unscathed. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, the war hero, finally forced to declare his party, blitzkrieged Robert Taft in 1952; John F. Kennedy '40 impressed regulars by mopping up in 1960; it's after New Hampshire that the survivors start giving their aides funny looks, wondering who's going to fit in which Cabinet slot. Sometimes New Hampshire just plays the non sequitur: with two hot-to-trot Republicans (Barry Goldwater and Nelson Rockefeller...