Word: mundt
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...DeMarco, Cornell; John Cabell, Princeton. One Mile Relay--Dartmouth (Bob Coburn, Joe Duncan, Rich Nichols, Ken Norman). Two Mile Relay--Cornell (Dave Stinson, Steve Braillier. Tom Patterson, Pal Roach). Weight Throw--Phil Bartlett, Brown: DANNY JIGGETTS, Harvard: STEVE NIEMI. Harvard. Shot Put--Dave Doupe, Cornell; Greg Cortina, Penn; Kevin Mundt, Brown. Long Jump--Jim Leonard, Cornell; Len Stachitas, Penn; Ed McPherson, Penn. Triple Jump--Jim Leonard, Cornell; Jorman Granger, Cornell: AHMED KAYALI, Harvard. High Jump--MEL EMBREE, Harvard; Peter Rutherford, Penn; Dave Cleaves, Princeton. Pole Vault--Dan Williges, Princeton: Jim Adlam, Penn; Al Grangman, Cornell...
Died. Karl Earl Mundt, 74, former Republican Senator from South Dakota; in Washington, D.C. A college speech teacher before his election to Congress in 1938, the stocky, amiable Mundt applied his oratorical talents to the cause of American isolationism before Pearl Harbor awakened him to international concerns. A supporter of the United Nations and sponsor of the bill creating the Voice of America, he became a tough postwar antiCommunist. As acting chairman of the House Un-American Activities Committee, he helped young Richard Nixon push the investigation of Alger Hiss. Elected to the Senate in 1948, Mundt reluctantly chaired...
Nixon took McGovern's home state away from him with 54 per cent of the vote, but Democrat James Abourtezk took cold warrior Karl Mundt's old Senate sent away from the GOP with 54 per cent of the popular vote Incumbent Democratic Governor John Kneip was re-elected with 61 per cent of the tally...
...biography of McGovern, Robert Anson quotes the South Dakota Senator as saying that his 1960 Senate campaign against Karl Mundt was his worst political effort. "It was my worst campaign. I hated him so much I lost my sense of balance. I made some careless charges. I got on the defensive during the campaign and was rattled. I started explaining and answering things I should have ignored. It was hard to get a book on Mundt...
Just as he said he did in the Mundt campaign, McGovern has gotten rattled. A prime example was his reaction to the announcement of a possible settlement of the war in Vietnam. In the course of one day's campaigning last week. McGovern gave reporters three different comments on whether he felt the settlement would help his chances to get elected...