Word: upsets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Carter sewed up the Democratic nomination by winning 218 delegates in the final three primaries last Tuesday, pushing his total then to 1,250. He was clobbered, as expected, by Governor Jerry Brown in California. In a remarkable last-ditch effort by the anyone-but-Carter forces, he was upset in New Jersey by an uncommitted slate pledged to Brown and Hubert Humphrey (Who could resist the offer of two candidates for one vote?). But Carter won big where it counted most?in Ohio, the nation's sixth largest state. Competing against both Udall and Church, Carter carried...
...Houston's Memorial Park sits on a pool of oil and gas, and now the city wants to tap it. The scheme has naturally aroused the Audubon Society and the Sierra Club, but their distress pales beside that of the city's oil establishment. The oilmen are upset not because the city plans to drill in Memorial Park but because of the way Houston's mayor, Fred Hofheinz, is going about...
...What upset Steve the most was that all around him he saw extremely bright individuals who permitted themselves to focus more and more narrowly on their own worlds and become further and further removed from social reality: "To me," he says, "the major thing about a Harvard education is the chance it could give to people to sit back and become concerned with far-reaching questions about our society. Harvard should be breeding people who are going to help this society look at how the pie is divided, not how to get a bigger slice for themselves. Life is more...
...that point, Jagan was surely right. Under Burnham, the Guyana government has shifted markedly to the left, most visibly in cultivating relations with Jagan's idol, Cuban Premier Fidel Castro. Washington, which lavished millions on Guyana in development projects to encourage Burnham's election in 1964, is upset. So are neighboring Venezuela and Brazil. Outsiders' suspicion has provoked a kind of fortress mentality on the part of Burnham, who optimistically called Jagan's return to Parliament "a warning to our enemies that we are a united people...
...Embree will be the main challenger to pre-meet favorite Dwight Stones. The Long Beach State senior has been tabbed as America's gold-medal hope in this summer's Olympic games at Montreal. But Embree, who has qualified for the upcoming Olympic trials, hopes to pull off an upset similar to his victory over Stones in the 1975 Milrose Games...