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Harvard racquetmen will do battle with an upstart. Yale team seeking a share of the Crimson's Ivy League title at 2 p.m. today in Hemenway...
Romp & Stomp. The Danish critics, many of whom were skeptical of upstart Flindt at the outset, agreed that, in a year of forward strides, Mandarin was the grand jete. When Flindt took over, he started straight off to dress up the troupe's traditional repertory and leaven it with new modern works...
...Relief is coming for the Boston commuter," promised American Airlines' full-page ads. American, hoping for some relief itself, was touting its fancy new Boston-New York Jet Express service, which begins this week. Once king of the route, the airline is challenging the upstart that has virtually swept the rich Northeast Corridor since 1961: Eastern Air Lines' pinchpenny but popular Air-Shuttle...
America's traditional sympathy with an underdog clashes head on with America's traditional dislike of a pushy upstart Sunday when traditional America places it self around the tube for the AFL-NFL Playoff. The negative sentiment was outstripping the positive in all early analyses of this match. But the tide is turning. The Kansas City Chiefs have gone a long way to dissipate their Nouveau riche image...
...Shriver), who rig it for such chores as plowing snow or use it for wheeling around a ranch. Recently, however, despite frequent refinements and the introduction of the station wagon and light-truck Jeeps, Kaiser's grip on the domestic market has been weakened by a couple of upstart Jeep-style sports models: International Harvester's Scout and Ford's Bronco. Moreover, the profit margin on sales to the military, still a large chunk of the company's U.S. business, has felt a pinch. As a result, Kaiser Jeep owes its 1965 operating profits...