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...matchup between the wily Armenian and the Brooklyn kid was a classic encounter of East v. West, old pro v. young upstart. Ticket scalpers asked -and got-triple the cost of admission. Hundreds of other enthusiasts stood in line for up to nine hours to buy tickets. For each game in the best-of-twelve series, the theater was filled with elegant ladies peering through pearled opera glasses and vested gentlemen following the play on pocket chess sets. Another 3,000 fans crowded into the lobby, where they could watch and argue each move as it was relayed from...
...that has changed now. For two years Penn and Harvard battled nose-to-nose, and both years Harvard had the last punch by winning at the Easterns. But last spring an upstart Navy crew embarrassed both Ivy teams by crushing the competition. The days of dynasties were over, and the heavies are competitive again. With strong teams such as Brown and Northeastern and Rutgers threatening to upset the old rulers. Harvard will be fighting to win each race this spring...
There was never much doubt of it back home. True, when Trevino first came out of nowhere to win his first U.S. Open in 1968, many dismissed him as a one-shot upstart. Who, after all, had ever heard of a Chicano champion?a Chicano, moreover, who had learned the game by gambling with easy marks on a Texas pitch-and-putt course? Who could believe a pro golf titlist who looked like a hacker and talked like a hustler...
Robert Dole of Kansas, was not even Richard Nixon's second choice for G.O.P. national chairman. But he ingratiated himself with the White House as an effective sniper, and since his appointment this January, the upstart Senate freshman has earned a reputation as the Administration's No. 1 gunslinger. In a season when the President has chosen to lower his partisan profile, Dole has stepped into the breach as party defender and cheerleader, spraying shot and zapping Democrats with Agnewesque zeal...
...weeks later won the Florida Derby against substantially the same field. After running a woeful seventh in the Wood Memorial, Bold and Able won the Stepping Stone at Churchill Downs by three lengths. California-bred Unconscious, the betting favorite at post time, was unbeaten this year until an Eastern upstart named Jim French defeated him in the Santa Anita Derby. Impetuosity startled even his trainer when he won the Blue Grass Stakes at Keeneland two weeks ago. Among the several dark horses was an import from South America named Canonero II, the only horse on the track that had previously...