Word: upset
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...G.O.P.'s most spectacular Midwest gains came in the House races and were, in large part, the result of having exceptionally attractive young candidates. In Michigan, Republican challengers ousted all five of the Democratic Congressmen who were newly elected in 1964. Biggest upset occurred in the Seventh District (Flint and environs), where Republican Donald W. Riegle Jr., 28, literally quit school?he was working on a business doctorate at Harvard?to take on First-Termer John Mackie, 46, Democratic wheelhorse and longtime state highway commissioner. Riegle, who tirelessly trod city streets and crashed Democratic rallies, buried Mackie...
Died. Eddie Erdelatz, 53, Naval Academy football coach from 1950 to 1959, who took over the Middies when they were about to abandon ship (four wins in five years), produced a stunning 14-2 upset over undefeated Army, went on to post an impressive nine-year record of 50 wins, 26 losses, 8 ties before quitting after protesting the academy's strict limits on practice time, scholarships and ticket allotments; of cancer; in Burlingame, Calif...
...Institute, turned down a petition signed by over 1600 students, 93 teaching fellows, and 52 faculty for McNamara to debate Robert Scheer, editor of Ramparts. He stated academic reasons for this decision, including the "difficulty" of attracting national figures to the Institute. That a public debate should "embarrass" or "upset" a cabinet member, can only demonstrate that he has some lapse of rationality in his record, which he would like to hide. This makes the decision not to debate a political one, motivated by a desire to obfuscate American foreign policy...
Eliot House backed into the inter-house soccer championship Monday when Quincy upset Kirkland 2-1, in the last game of the season...
...Upset...