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Carter professes to welcome his underdog status, maintaining that he has always campaigned best when he is behind. His strategy for Anderson is to ignore him publicly. With Carter's blessing, however, the Democratic National Committee last week set aside $225,000 to hire lawyers who will try to keep Anderson off the ballot in 13 key states, including California, New York and Ohio. Anderson already is on the ballot in Kansas, New Jersey and Utah. For Reagan, Carter has settled on a more aggressive strategy. The President's aides will keep reminding voters this summer about...
After being nudged out by an underdog University of New Hampshire squad, 3-2, Saturday, the women's lacrosse team beat the University of Rhode Island, 4-2, yesterday to grab a third-place finish in the New England Championships...
...that Reagan can be elected is by no means to say that he will be. On the contrary, he looks very much the underdog. Some party operatives are plainly unhappy with his selection. In Massachusetts, where both Bush and Anderson defeated Reagan, party leaders are not yet reconciled to the Reagan candidacy. Says one: "There's a vacuum of leadership at the national level; and what appears to be the Republican Party's response? A 69-year-old man who has done virtually nothing for years. We're at the same stage the Whigs were. There...
...weeks were filled with stunning performances, but two were truly memorable. The underdog U.S. hockey team conquered all with its boundless enthusiasm, typically playing its best and scoring the goal that put the game against the Finns on ice when it was shorthanded because of penalties. Afterward, President Carter phoned Coach Herb Brooks to say: "We were trying to do business, and nobody could. We were watching TV with one eye and Iran and the economy with the other." But even the thrilling hockey victory could not overshadow the accomplishments of a young and unassuming speed skater from the Midwest...
Earlier, against the Swedes, the underdog Americans played like future members of the National Hockey League, and, indeed, 15 members of the team have been drafted by the pros. They bashed the Europeans into the boards, they scuffled the puck into the corners. If their pond hockey was not terribly sophisticated, it was good enough -barely. The U.S. trailed Sweden 2-1 going into the last minute of the game...