Word: tossups
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Goldwater this year, and he might regret it. Able, four-term Congressman Joseph M. ("Little Joe") Montoya, 49, an adroit vote getter, has a name that is about as common in New Mexico, where nearly one-third of the voters are Spanish Americans, as John Smith is elsewhere. A tossup...
Last year Harvard squeaked past the Lord Jeffs, 4-3. In cold weather that makes any golf inconsistent, today's match has to be considered a tossup. Later this season the Crimson looks for its toughest competition from perennially powerful Yale. Princeton, the best team around last season, lost five of its top seven players...
...Navy. Sighs one pro scout: "It's too bad we can't get him married off so he'd have to quit the Academy." Muses another: "Maybe he's got flat feet?" After Staubach, who? In the year of the quarterback "it's a tossup," says one scout. Nevertheless, the majority choice is Southern Cal's Pete Beathard, 21 (6 ft. 2 in., 205 lbs.). "A winner all his life," reads a report. "Capable of throwing the bomb." Scouts fret that Miami's George Mira...
...Pollster Sam Lubell, who doesn't use figures, reported that Republican Richard Nixon and Democrat Pat Brown are run ning "a fifty-fifty tossup" race for Governor of California. In the East, said Lubell, President Kennedy's support of Democratic candidates for Governor is doing them little good: New York's Republican Governor Nelson Rockefeller. Ohio Candidate James A. Rhodes and Pennsylvania Candidate William W. Scranton (see cover) are each getting significant support from voters who backed Kennedy...
According to Shepard, today's game is pretty much of a tossup. "All I know about Springfield is that they beat Yale," Shepard said yesterday. Although the Maroon and white is supposed to be very good this year, Harvard can probably match them man for man both at bat and in the field...