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Automatic Underdog. The financial and power resources of the ruling Directory of generals make any civilian an automatic underdog. But with the world watching closely to see if the first free presidential election in South Viet Nam's history will really be democratic, a civilian with the will to fight could make a good run for it. Three civilian candidates have already thrown their hats into the ring. Phan Khac Suu, 62, onetime Chief of State and now speaker of the Constituent Assembly that framed the nation's new constitution, was the first to announce. A Southerner...
...underdog when it came to running his union. Hoffa ruthlessly crushed opposition, demanded total obedience from his officers. His iron-fisted rule led him into questionable associations with gangsters, shady deals with employers and flagrant misuse of union funds. Bobby Kennedy, who as counsel for the Senate rackets committee and later as Attorney General showed that he could be as rough an infighter as Hoffa, called his handling of the union a "conspiracy of evil." So fierce was the enmity between Hoffa and Kennedy that special police guards were assigned to Bobby after Hoffa's imprisonment, as protection against...
Wayne Anderson, who has won the Heps dash for the last two years, is the underdog this time to Army sophomore Van Evans. The tiny Cadet has whipped Harvard's captain twice this season. But Andersen is a clutch performer and he could do it. Anyway, second is safe...
know what he will say: he's the fire hydrant of the underdog...
...Arena loss shares its place in Harvard memories with the 1966 Beanpot Final with B.U. The Crimson was a heavy underdog into that one, too, but few were expecting the 9-2 humiliation that resulted...