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...either Valentine or Valenzuela finished higher in their respective competitions. Harvard would have been given the boost the Crimson needed to slip into the top ten in the NCAA competition...
With the race wide open and the depth of public unease indicated by the Wallace and Jackson votes, the Jackson strategists see a chance for their man to slip in as a kind of Wallace-in-spats. "The U.S. political center is angry," argues Jackson Manager Ben Wattenberg. "It's sullen. The question now is: Can any candidate deal with the frustrations constructively? Wallace has proved he can deal with them negatively. That's not what people want. Jackson can get the Wallace vote-no one else...
...Zhivago furor, Feltrinelli drifted further leftward, becoming a financial angel of Italy's militant Maoists and publishing a revolutionary magazine called Tricontinental. When Italian police three years ago sought him for questioning about his open advocacy of violence, Feltrinelli went into exile in Austria-though he managed to slip in and out of Italy from time to time...
Another hesitation about the provate carters is their oft-mentioned, but unproven, connection with the Mafia. When DeLury is called on to broach that subject, he demurs by saying, "That's a very dangerous question for me to answer." In fact, Tuesday night he let slip for the first time that he has had a bodyguard, supplied by the city, ever since he received a death threat last October. "The FBI calls and says I must have a bodyguard, and I have. It's that simple," he said...
During the late 1960's, Yale, formerly the class of the world, began to slip in its national rank while such schools as Indiana. Texas, and Long Beach State were developing into swimming powerhouses. Where formerly the top national swimmers would apply to Yale8Scoring: Relays 7--0 All Other Events...