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...Bill Colson is back for his third year at first singles, and his brother Dean, a sophomore, has moved in at number two. Harold Rabinowitz did not play singles against Dartmouth yesterday and may be at less than full strength, but Harvard's Inguard will still be a definite underdog...
...complicated things as well?not least because Israel was victorious beyond all expectation. Some Jews, especially younger ones, had trouble adjusting to the image of the Jew as conqueror. Those in the New Left found it possible to assail Israel as the new upperdog and to defend the underdog Palestinian guerrillas with Jerry Rubin's phrase, "Right on, Al Fatah!" The chorus was joined by black militants, who now hurled epithets at the very Jews who had first marched with them in civil rights protests. The blacks' anger, overtly against Israel, at least partly reflected domestic friction: they were finding...
...state of crisis. Not even his closest aides were certain how Muskie would take his defeat, whether he would sulk or come out fighting. At week's end, Muskie seemed to erase their fears. He barged into Indiana and Illinois with unusual snap, apparently relishing his new underdog role. He attacked Wallace as a "preacher of prejudice," and Nixon as the servant of special interests...
...worried any longer about making a mistake. I don't have to try to carefully thread the needle. When you're not trying to do that, you can do your best. It's the only way to win. I've always done better as an underdog. I'm not sure I'm an underdog now, but I know I've got an uphill fight...
Given Muskie's disappointing showing in New Hampshire and the disaster in Florida, it's clear that the senator's efforts to win as a front-runner have failed. He's now starting over again, this time as an underdog, and it's possible that the Florida results will give him the extra--even though bitter--dose of orange juice be needs as he makes his new start...