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Brown didn't miss his heat. After allowing back-to-back first-inning singles, the fireballer tamed the Tigers with an clusive slider and sailing hard stuff that made up in movement for what it lacked in velocity. Mark Lockenmeyer's fourth-inning infield chopper was Princeton's only other safety...
...Boss Stanislaw Kania's surprise visits to Prague and East Berlin last week. Party Bosses Gustav Husak of Czechoslovakia and Erich Honecker of East Germany have been, along with the Soviets, the most bitter and vocal critics of Poland's liberalization. Western analysts saw Kama's back-to-back meetings with them as an attempt to reassure his skeptical comrades and gain enough time to bring the Polish crisis solidly under control. Significantly, press coverage of Poland was muted throughout the East bloc last week. TASS even reported that the Jaruzelski government seemed...
...years and five consecutive Wimbledon titles later, Borg's reputation in Australia is worth much more than a dollar-$749,999 more. And three-quarters of a million dollars was not all that Borg and his archrival John McEnroe divided for playing three back-to-back exhibition matches in Australia last week. There was also a solid silver tennis racquet, coated with gold and worth another $50,000, for the winner of the best two-out-of-three confrontations (two matches in Sydney, one in Melbourne...
...Back-to-back Crimson wins this weekend over league-ladders Penn and Princeton will throw the League into a virtual three-way tie for the lead, going into the season's final week...
...speech was an impressive opening gun. Talking quietly but seriously for 18 minutes in layman's language, the President asserted that the nation has no choice but to break with its past profligacy. Said he: "We have to face the truth." Ticking off some familiar statistics -back-to-back years of double-digit inflation for the first time since World War I, 7 million unemployed, a national debt of $934 billion-he warned that "we are threatened with an economic calamity of tremendous proportions, and the old business-as-usual treatment can't save...