Word: contests
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Amherst's fullback line played a very rugged body-contact game in front of the goal to block out Thomas and Gomez throughout the contest...
...almost think that there was nothing going on there. But that's ridiculous. Who could forget, if he ever learned of it, the results of the First Baby Contest two years ago? Patent Trader sponsors a contest for the first baby born in the new year at our hospital. Local merchants present the mother everything from trading stamps to a pet monkey. So imagine everyone's surprise when an unmarried 15-year-old girl won that race early one January 1. She apparently turned down all the publicity-including the traditional front page picture-and the first married mother walked...
Boosting Debates. The major provision limits a candidate's expenditures for air time in a general election to 7? for each vote cast for the office in the last contest. The ceiling is 3½? a voter in primaries, but presidential and vice presidential candidates are exempt from the primary limitation. In the next presidential election, therefore, the candidates will each be permitted to spend $5.1 million for radio and TV air time. In 1968, Nixon spent $12.7 million and Hubert Humphrey $6.1 million...
...crowd of 2,000 collected to watch. The contest was highlighted by charges of police brutality when a line drive from a cop's bat stung the pitcher. The kids tried to get the cops' crew-cut pitcher ejected for throwing a greaseball, and the police puffed on imaginary marijuana cigarettes and floated around the base paths. Law-and-order prevailed 24-5, but a rematch was scheduled, and there is talk of having the competitors join an amateur softball league...
...arrived late in Newport and looked unimpressive in their victory over the hapless France. Just a week before meeting Intrepid, Skipper Jim Hardy and Designer Alan Payne decided to move Gretel II's mast 5¾ inches aft. So major a modification, made so late in the contest, suggested that the Australians were less than prepared to take on Intrepid's Skipper Bill Ficker and his finely drilled crew...