Word: upsets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Maine--Democratic Senator Edmund S. Muskie has encountered the most active challenge for his seat since he first won the position in 1958. Nevertheless, his Republican opponent, Robert A.G. Monks, has little chance of scoring an upset despite the state's serious economic woes. Monk's attempts to pin the charge of "fiscal irresponsibility" on Muskie have proven ineffective, particularly in light of the Democrat's position as chairman of the Senate Budget Committee...
Such new problems and old wounds provide an opportunity for an upset by Representative Alan Steelman, Bentsen's GOP challenger. However, Steelman has problems of his own. His voting record in the House stands out as quite moderate in comparison to his fellow Republicans in the state delegation. He has complicated matters by attacking Bentsen from the left by support the Equal Rights Amendment and liberalized abortion laws, and from the right, by favoring state right-to-work laws and opposing oil company divestiture. This tactic has in effect reproduced Bentsen's problem of fracturing the electorate...
...Restic can only lament that the Crimson was not so carefully prepared to avoid an upset...
...Sunday, upset-minded Middlebury shut the Crimson attack down completely, but Seidler turned in another superb effort, and the stickwomen escaped with their second 0-0 deadlock of the year...
...cold didn't affect Robert's game, though, as she crunched Nancy Mooney of UMass, 6-0, 6-0, and finished the day with a surprising 6-2, 6-2, victory over Carrie Hickman, a strong player from the University of Maine, Portland, who upset the number eight seed earlier...