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...place. James Rhodes, the highly successful two-term Governor, and Congressman Robert Taft Jr., who hopes to follow in his famed father's footsteps, are headed for a punishing primary that only Democrats will enjoy. Despite allegations of misconduct leveled against him by LIFE magazine, Rhodes is no underdog to the stolid Taft. Democrats expect that in their primary, former Astronaut John Glenn's glamour will prevail over Cleveland Lawyer Howard Metzenbaum, a former state legislator. They hope that the internal Republican warfare will damage both Taft and Rhodes enough to offset the fact that Glenn has shown...
...Terrell, after playing in Nayar's shadow for so long, won an invitational intercollegiate tournament in New York recently and is probably the best college competitor in the country. Scott, therefore, must be considered an underdog, though a talented...
...rough, bruising style usually are enough to get Harvard's number no matter what sort of material shows up at Chestnut Hill each winter. The Eagles have won five of the last six games, including three in overtime, and when the two teams meet tonight, Harvard will be the underdog once again...
Overpowering individual and team performances by Harvard's swimmers Saturday in the IAB gave them their first win 84-29, over Army since 1962. The Crimson, which considered itself the underdog, won all 13 events for its second victory without a loss...