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...Hard Breather. True, Russell's Celtics trail the Philadelphia 76ers by 7½ games in the race for the regular season Eastern Division championship. But last week they beat the 76ers for the fourth time in seven games this season, 113-112 -and there is no reason to suspect that they can't do it again in next month's postseason playoffs. True, Russell makes mistakes: in one game, he was fined for forgetting to call a required time out (thereby costing the TV sponsor a commercial); in another, he sent in a substitute without removing...
...marines, backed by tanks and a squadron of armored personnel carriers, each armed with a .50-cal. and two .30-cal. machine guns, ringed the rebel command post, the faded yellow-stucco Tinh Hoi Buddhist pagoda. Six blocks away, the foreign press, mostly American, was taking a breather on the cement terrace of the Press Center overlooking the Danang River...
...lacrosse team takes a breather from its tough Ivy League schedule when it faces Williams today at Williamstown...
...hockey team will got a breather when it plays the University of New Hampshire in Watson Rink tomorrow--and it's about time. Starting December 11, the young Icemen have lost six of seven games. But the losses, all by less than two goals, have come at the hands of the best team in Canada and four of the East's top five sextets...
Columnist Max Lerner, writing in the New York Post, wanted a "compulsory breather" of 30 days once a strike date has arrived. During the breather, mediators would review the facts and make recommendations that would be widely publicized, since the papers would still be publishing. "We often act," said Lerner, "as if the alternatives were all or nothing: compulsory arbitration or do-nothingism. There is a healthy ground between them: the use of limited legal powers to dramatize the conflict areas, publicize the facts and solutions, put the two sides on the spot and build up opinion behind a settlement...