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Oregon is haven to the maverick and uplifter of the underdog. In last week's primary. Oregon Democrats allowed Eugene McCarthy to check Robert Kennedy's drive, while the Republicans gave new velocity to Richard Nixon's bid for the nomination. By so doing, Oregonians made it more likely than ever that the post-convention contest would be between Nixon and Hubert Humphrey, the two ostensible traditionalists in the crowd...
...Last Push. Oregon and California will present new problems to Kennedy. Oregon is underdog territory, and McCarthy's campaign there is better organized than it was in either Nebraska or Indiana. Although the Minnesotan himself appears discouraged, his troops on the West Coast seem to be of a mood to give one last push for Gene. Kennedy enjoys support from the regular Democratic organization in Oregon, but that is puny by any reckoning in that anti-organization state. And some Oregonians remember that Bobby, as a Senate investigator in 1957, was instrumental in getting Portland's Mayor Terry Schrunk tried...
Harvard coach Jack Barnaby accepts the role of underdog. "Princeton had a super freshman team last year," said Barnaby. "On paper they look like the team to beat...
Despite its undefeated record and home court advantage, Harvard will enter the match as an underdog. To defeat Penn, the Crimson must play sensational tennis. Fortunately, they are capable of such a performance...
...likely to control almost two-thirds of the convention's delegates. The media, however, in focusing so closely on New Hampshire, make Johnson's fall appear imminent, if not inevitable, and the President, in recent speeches, has even tried to project an image of himself as the underdog. Particularly since the New Hampshire, primary immediately preceeds the Wisconsin race, in which McCarthy has always been expected to do well, Johnson himself is now in a position to score a "moral victory" should the Minnesota Senator fail to sweep the state convincingly...