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...Soloflex, an Oregon maker of body-building equipment, show a woman's hand touching such brawny hunks as Boxing Champ Ken Norton, Muscleman Frank Zane and Olympic Gold Medal Gymnast Mitch Gaylord. The headline: "A hard man is good to find." Says Jerry Wilson, founder of Soloflex, whose sales have jumped 20% since the ads started appearing last spring: "There's no way I can sell the product without selling...
...does it feel? Michael Spinks was asked a few days later. The thrill apparently does not last. "I was champ before," he said accurately enough. "I did my celebrating in the ring." That he did, after stopping and setting some records. Despite 5-to-1 odds against him when he challenged Larry Holmes, 35, Spinks, 29, fought on through 15 grueling, if unstirring, rounds to a unanimous decision and his 28th straight victory, making him the first light-heavyweight champion in history to win the heavyweight title. Spinks' upset ended the seven-year reign of his opponent, who was just...
...Crocicchia fired a 1-yd. touchdown pass to Brent Novoselsky late in the first half, and defending Ivy League champ Penn relied on a sturdy defense to hold off Cornell for a 10-6 Saturday in Philadelphia...
Berndt, the miracle worker who turned a perennial cellar-dweller into a three-time Ivy champ overnight, faces his toughest task yet this year with 15 starters gone from his 8-1 squad of a year...
Because NBC's prime-time schedule is the most stable of the networks', Tartikoff has time to devote to the rest of the broadcast day. The Today show, the most bracing of the three sunrise coffee klatches, has mounted a strong assault on longtime ratings champ Good Morning America at ABC, while the CBS Morning News continues to flounder with the abrupt departures of Anchors Bill Kurtis and, last week, Phyllis George. The Saturday-morning kidvid schedule remains No. 1. Carson is still king of late-night, and Letterman the hippest of clown princes. Only daytime is a slum...