Word: setbacks
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...Harvard fencing team suffered a frustrating setback in its quest for the Ivy League championship last Friday in Ithaca, N.Y., losing to a stubborn Cornell squad...
...minute tape erasure Nixon's only setback of another painful week. Other developments...
Ruggedly handsome, articulate and self-confident, "Tommy" Wilcox rose fast. He headed the bank's branch-expansion program in New York City and -perhaps recalling his own humble origins-was especially helpful in getting black businesses started. His only setback came in 1967 when he lost to Walter B. Wriston in a competition for chairmanship of the U.S.'s second largest bank. Not being No. 1 cramped him, though, and Wilcox quit in 1971 to join the investment firm of Blyth, Eastman, Dillon & Co. There, says a friend, he turned down "about 50,000 job offers." Then Crocker...
...possibility of Arrow's permanent exit is far more alarming than another sabbatical for Galbraith, Harvard's version of Odysseus. Both Dean Rosovsky and James S. Duesenberry, chairman of the department, admitted that the loss of Arrow would be a serious setback for the department...
Navy, still smarting from its 7-2 setback at the hands of Harvard last year, has been preparing for this contest for weeks. Crimson coach Jack Barnaby said recently that Navy "would like nothing better than to be the team to snap our 43-match undefeated string...