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...well enlist a middle-of-the-roader to challenge Johnson?Nelson Rockefeller, Richard Nixon, even Pennsylvania's Governor William Scranton or Michigan's Governor George Romney. Those who had been shunning the race because they figured it was a lost cause anyway may now be entertaining second thoughts. The tip-off should come when the early-bird New Hampshire primary is held in March, for the G.O.P. nominee is likely to be one who enters and wins several primaries...
...Immediate Lift." Barnett's second-string heroics have inspired a dedicated band of Barnett boosters to get out the paintpots and troop to Laker home games beneath placards proclaiming "Fall back, baby!" Almost from the opening tip-off they noisily inform Coach Schaus that "We want Barnett!" Barnett whole heartedly agrees. "I definitely would like to be a starter," he says. "I think I can play equally well on any basis and that I'd be more effective starting." When Starter West tore a hamstring muscle last month, Barnett got his chance-and the results will make...
...varsity basketball team takes on the Yale Bulldogs for the second time in four days tonight in the I.A.B. and, although the Crimson is sunk irredeemably in sixth place, the game is vital to the Elis' Ivy League fortunes. Tip-off will...
Probably the most exciting game of the day is the basketball contest, which will tip-off in the I.A.B. tonight at 3 p.m. Harvard, which defeated the Indians at Hanover earlier is the month, is probably the favorite, but no one is predicting a runaway...
...tip-off came when a Shell Oil drill crew found rotary mud gushing from one of its wells. Rotary mud is forced down new holes to cool drill tips, and the Shell crew concluded that another drill had pierced its well shaft. A search quickly turned up the pirate rig-3,000 ft. away over the piny hills. At Shell's complaint, the Texas Railroad Commission, which regulates oil production in the state, ordered a crew of engineers into the field...