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...N.C.A.A. finals in Kansas City, the play was as cold and ruthless as a ragged axe. U.C.L.A.'s Walt Hazzard, a jumping Jack who chopped through all Duke's beanstalks, carried a steely team to its 30th consecutive victory, beating Duke 98-83. It was the Bruins' first national championship, and highest score ever in an N.C.A.A. final...
...cameras, with a smile. But the smile faded quickly as Kierans presented his letter, which began, "The financial capitals of the world have just about had enough from Canada." In effect, the letter called the tax discriminatory, prohibitive and unworkable-"complete and utter nonsense." It was, he continued, "an axe to murder the record of trust and confidence that has grown up over the years." As Kierans talked to Gordon, his Montreal office distributed 1,200 copies of the letter in English, and another 600 in French, to every company president with shares listed on the exchanges and to every...
...chance that any woman will give birth to live, healthy quadruplets is about one in 2,500,000. So when X rays showed that Barbara Axe, 26, was carrying quads, she felt challenged. She told her obstetrician: "I'm snoopy. If you're likely to make medical history, it would be nice to see it." Last week she made...
...Barbara Axe seemed faintly disappointed that the babies were all girls. But she had another kind of compensation. Around Lima, scarcely one out of 20 mothers watches the birth of her own children, but she had combined her curiosity with her condition to hit a 50 million-to-1 shot and see the delivery of her own quadruplets...
Perhaps the loudest and most effective blast of all came from Boston University's Jack Kelley with no axe to grind. Pronouncing the "premature selection a severe mistake," Kelley indicated that the ratings would certainly have been different if the committee had bothered to wait for B.C. to finish its disastrous northern trip...