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There is truth in that. Georgia, home of traditionally stingy defenses, now has an offense to match. It is led by junior Quarterback Buck Belue, an all-round athlete who was drafted by baseball's Chicago White Sox. The Bulldogs have lost just one of the 16 games he has started...
...that justifies her moods are the results. In Montreal four years ago, Kim not only won two individual gold medals but scored two all-but-unprecedented perfect tens -one in the floor exercise program and one in her specialty, the vault. In Fort Worth last December she took the all-round women's title. Kim, now training near her home in Minsk, is the odds-on favorite for further honors in the 1980 Olympics. But she is not so sure. Kim will be 23 in July, an aging gymnastic veteran. She also has domestic distractions: foremost among them, Husband...
DIED. Francis Robinson, 70, nationally known voice of Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera as its press spokesman, radio and TV guide and all-round almanac of operatic history for three decades; of cancer; in New York City. Robinson, who joined the Met as tour manager in 1948, when the company did its traveling in two trains with 18 sleeping and 22 baggage cars, once confessed a desire to be onstage. But in his managerial role, he said, "I came as close as I could without singing, and I've probably lasted longer...
...month ago much more seriously than outsiders suspected. When she began to favor the leg, the other ankle flared up, and her main strength-the efficiency of her strokes-was impaired. For all that, Beth finally won a bronze medal in the 3,000 and would have been the all-round women's skating champion if the events had been judged collectively, as they are in the world championships. Still, her medal brought tears of anguish as well as joy. At her press conference, she said: "I'm happiest when I skate for myself. But this year...
...equally worrisome assessment came from London, where the authoritative International Institute for Strategic Studies, taking annual stock of the global "military balance," declared that the Soviets' "impressive" all-round modernization not only gives the Warsaw Pact the edge over NATO in a prolonged ground war but also poses a direct threat to America's own intercontinental missile systems. "It will be eight to ten years before the United States could again restore a degree of invulnerability to their land-based deterrent forces," the IISS concluded...