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Dismal Tidings. Despite his long lead for the nomination, Humphrey may enter the campaign as the distinct underdog. Nixon's high rating in the polls is part of the reason, and the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia is likely to enhance his appeal. Because Nixon still has the reputation of being a tough antiCommunist, he stands to benefit from Moscow's raw assertion of power...
...delegate votes - 499 more than he needs to capture the Democratic presidential nomination in August - Hubert Humphrey might understandably have been content to tend to his Washington chores or else to rusticate back home in Waverly, Minn. Instead, acting for all the world like a ravenous underdog, the Vice President scrambled through a grueling Midwestern campaign tour...
...once earned $125 a week, picked up $120,000 in a mere six minutes last week, when he defended his five-state (New York, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Maine) version of the heavyweight title against Mexico's Manuel Ramos, 24, at Madison Square Garden. A 4-to-l underdog in the betting, the Mexican shocked everybody-especially Frazier-by unloading a first-round right that buckled Joe's knees and sent him reeling backward into the ropes. Frazier shook his head to clear the cobwebs ("It's the hardest I ever was hit"), then struck back with...
...sexy Los Angeles murder case. "I want to ask the questions now," he remarked. "Why don't you answer my questions?" He talked about the stock market, an article on Hawaii that he had read recently, his liking for gardening, his belief that criminal justice discriminates against the underdog. When he felt that the investigators were talking down to him, he snapped: "I am not a mendicant." About the only things he would not discuss were his identity and the events at the Ambassador Hotel. After a few hours, the police fed him a predawn breakfast of sausage and eggs...
...League champion Yale, Harvard fought back from another 17-0 disadvantage, only to lose, 24-20, when All-East quarterback Brian Dowling hit Dan Marting--whose defender had slipped--in the clear. It was a bitter ioss for the Harvard team which had entered the game a three touchdown underdog...