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After that failure, most Republican candidates adopted a more conservative strategy, best articulated nationally by Senator Robert A. Taft of Ohio, and best represented in California by Senators William F. Knowland and Richard M. Nixon. Nixon's 1950 campaign exemplifies this new strategy. Nixon took the usual conservative Republican line on economic matters, but he deliberately emphasized so-called "style," that is, non-economic, issues. In 1950 that meant, above all, the issue of Communist subversion. Nixon never tired of calling his opponent soft on communism, and apparently the electorate believed him. He won by more than one million votes...
About five minutes into the third quarter, inside Dave Taft got the ball at mid-field and put it out to Dudley Blodget. He crossed perfectly just in front of the goal to Charlie Njoku who hit the post with his shot. Jim Saltonstall put in the rebound, making the score...
Harvard kept pressing well into the fourth period, with Dave Taft and Luts Hoeppner moving all over the field to steal Yale balls. But the Crimson could only score once more, when Njoku put in another rebound. Meanwhile Yale had scored twice, and easily maintained their 6-3 lead in the final minute...
Captain and right halfback Bill Kerstetter will lead a half-dozen seniors in heir last soccer game for Harvard. In addition to Bowditch, this group includes insides Hugh Polk and Dave Taft, center halfback Chuck Okigwe and inside-halfback Fred Akuffo...
Akuffo will start at center half, and Taft will join Polk as starting inside, with the second tandem of Lutz Hoeppner and Bill Schaefer in reserve...