Word: upsets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Oregon upset Washington State for the championship last year, with all five of their scorers finishing in the top 25 of a 300-man field. This year, however, Texas El Paso, with junior college transfer James Rotich and steeplechase specialist James Munyala (both Kenyans), is the team to beat...
...distant and aloof Kansas Republican Governor Robert Bennett, never really popular in his state, fell victim to the widespread voter unrest. He was upset by Democrat John Carlin, 38, speaker of the state's house of representatives. Wisconsin's image as one of the more liberal states was transformed by Republican Lee Sherman Dreyfus, 52, chancellor of the University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point, who was seeking office for the first time. He unseated Acting Governor Martin Schreiber, 39, a career politician. Yet Dreyfus, who describes himself as a maverick in a populist mold, saw no ideological portent...
...Yukica took an escorted trip to the showers, the Hanover faithful exploded into frenzied ecstatsy and Dartmouth stood alone atop the Ivy League after pulling a stunning 31-21 upset over Brown Saturday in Providence...
...only major upset in the House races was the victory of Michael J. Barrett over Rep. Nile Nordberg (R-Reading), who had co-authored the unsuccessful Proposition 21/2 tax cut plan, cloned from California's Proposition...
...spring of 1977, Michigan's Robert Griffin had had enough of the U.S. Senate, in which he had served for eleven years. He was depressed over the election defeat of Gerald Ford. He was upset by his loss of the job of Republican Senate leader by a single vote to Tennessee's Howard Baker. Griffin decided to retire from the Senate and return to his law practice in Traverse City. He then seemed to lose interest in the Senate, missing 216 roll-call votes last year, which placed him in a tie for the chamber's fourth worst attendance record...