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...player for the Harlem Globetrotters, became the first Negro ever elected to the city commission. In Essex County (Newark), N.J., a militant Negro-Puerto Rican slate ran as third-party "New Frontier Democrats," failed to win any offices but trimmed votes enough from regular Democratic candidates to help several underdog Republicans get elected. (The Democrats had a bad day generally in New Jersey: the Republicans won control of both houses of the state legislature for the first time since...
...Princeton beaten Harvard, Yale would probably be a two- or three-touchdown underdog. Since Harvard did win, reduce that margin by one TD for safety...
...majorettes seemed to have the dropsy. Picket signs advised, "This is Goldwater Country" and "Go Home Rocky." Gamely, Rocky repeated his attacks on the Kennedy Administration and was roundly applauded for his efforts. But so far as the G.O.P. was concerned, he admitted that for him "the title of underdog is the right...
...Harvard sailing team faces the Coast Guard Academy and Dartmouth at M.I.T. today and tomorrow in one of two qualifying races for the New England Team Racing Championship this weekend. Strong Coast Guard and M.I.T. teams make defending champion Harvard a decided underdog...
Navy was a seven-point underdog. But at Annapolis they raised a banner, "Home of Roger Staubach," and for Navy that evened all the odds. Showing an admirable taste for tradition, he completed eleven out of 13 passes, personally accounted for 222 yds. and four touchdowns as Navy won 34-14. Army Coach Paul Dietzel had the air of a man preparing the excuse for next year. "Staubach is head and shoulders above all the other quarterbacks," he said...