Word: winning
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FUNNY GIRL. A loud, brassy and almost anachronistic musical biography of Fanny Brice. Barbra Streisand plays the lead in a typically brazen manner that will please her confirmed fans but hardly win her new ones...
Because hapless Truman Newberry spent the then shocking sum of $195,000 to win a U.S. Senate seat from Michigan in 1918, Congress-six years later -passed the Corrupt Practices Act. The law's principal proviso is that no single donor may give more than $5,000 to any one national campaign organization. As a result, candidates who are seriously interested in winning commonly set up dozens of such organizations; thus a big contributor can simply spread his largesse around in $5,000 wads...
Though he went along with enough of Duběek's liberal plans to win a government post as Deputy Premier this year, Strougal shrewdly managed to drop out of sight after the invasion, obviously playing for time in his new choice of loyalties. Whether or not those loyalties now belong fully to the Russians, he fared very well at the Central Committee meeting. He not only won a seat on the new "supercommittee," but also became head of the new Czech party bureau, created as a separate party wing for the nation's Czech majority...
...Lowell House Bellmen shocked second ranked Eliot,43-41 in House basketball last night. Will Stargel and Reggie Jones led Lowell to its first win of the season. Dan Strauss, Colin Kerr and Bob Listenbee also sparked the victors...
...Harvard's first loss of the season after an opening win over Brandeis, but the contest was much closer than the score indicates. At the half, Navy had a two point lead, 30-28, and with seven minutes remaining it was still a two point game...