Word: contendere
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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A number of the other schools in the league don't face Harvard's financial difficulties. Rutgers, always a strong contender for the league title, provides its team with 12 top-quality tournament tables and over $1000 a year to cover traveling expenses and new equipment. Cornell, last season's...
The tall, handsome onetime fighter pilot is still firing away, but he seems to be surviving. Not only does Weizman, 53, now have Dayan's old job at the Israeli defense ministry in Tel Aviv, he has also long been considered a leading contender for Begin's job...
Reeve's somewhat facile analysis is by no means the first journalistic pondering of a possible Brown candidacy in recent months. That distinction belongs to veteran Washington Post reporter David Broder, whose piece "Jerry Brown, the Long Distance Runner," can be found in the January, 1978 issue of the Atlantic...
For three and one-half years, Ali was not allowed to earn a purse at the only work he knew. The banishment cost him his fighting prime. Finally, late in 1970, he began to get some bouts: he tuned up by beating Jerry Quarry and Oscar Bonavena and then challenged...
Riding High. When "Big Jim" Thompson won the Illinois governorship by a whopping 1.3 million votes, people wondered if it would be all downhill from there. The government Thompson inherited was on the verge of bankruptcy because of the free-spending policies of maverick Democratic Governor Dan Walker. The statehouse...