Word: winning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first week as an official candidate, Hubert Humphrey acquired a zippy, red-striped jetliner and went on his way gathering delegate strength, campaign contributions, popular support and increasing self-confidence. "I'm going to win," he predicted...
...have seemed forced marches. In both Indiana and Nebraska, his volunteer student armies have dwindled. McCarthy has sometimes appeared supercilious, as last week in Indiana, when he declared the Hoosier primary to be "critical" to the outcome of the Democratic race. Later, in an unwonted exercise of heads-I-win-tails-you-lose casuistry, he explained testily that he meant it would be crucial only if he won against Kennedy and Hoosier Favorite Son Roger Branigin. Otherwise, he averred, Indiana would not matter much...
Ironically, Kennedy could win a plurality in Nebraska's popular voting, yet lose a substantial portion of the state's 28 convention delegates to McCarthy. Because Nebraska filings closed before Bobby announced, no Kennedy-committed candidates are listed on the ballot to select the 22 at-large delegates. The at-large ballot is a bewildering laundry list of 75 names-21 identified as uncommitted, 30 as committed to Lyndon Johnson, and 24 as committed to McCarthy. If the Minnesotan's partisans carefully vote only for his delegates while the rest of the ballots are scattered among...
Coach Jack Barnaby confidently predicted that his team will top Dartmouth. "The boys are hungry for that title; we won't boot it now," Barnaby said after the win over Yale...
Terry Oxford climaxed his undefeated season with an exhausting 8-6, 2-6, 6-2 win over Yale's Bill Keeton at the number five spot. It was typical Oxford triumph, as the Harvard junior wore his opponent down and then smashed him in the third...