Word: cinderellas
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...hillsides of Maryland's hunt country, Goucher College has long been an exclusive school for women. This summer, however, it has been the training-camp home of the National Football League's most aggressive social climbers, the Baltimore Colts. Last season the Colts were football's Cinderella, bouncing from two wins and twelve losses in 1974 to the championship of the American Football Conference's Eastern Division and a spot in the 1975 playoffs. They were beaten by the Pittsburgh Steelers in the first playoff round, but this year the Colts hope to stay...
...snowballing unity wasn't something that Carter's efficiency experts decided to manufacture. Nevertheless, ten seconds of every minute on the floor was spent gazing at the clock above the NBC booth. And it is difficult to tell Pennsylvania's governor that you must excuse yourself because you have Cinderella status...
Once upon a quite recent time, the staid insurance industry had a Cinderella firm called Government Employees Insurance Co. (GEICO). By charging low premium rates, GEICO skipped past older firms to become the fifth largest auto insurer in the land. Investors from far and wide flocked to buy a piece of GEICO, bidding its stock up to more than $60 a share. Then Cinderella turned into a pumpkin...
This time around there shouldn't be many surprises however, as the senior-studded varsity boat is keying very hard on going out a winner. In fact, save seven man Todd Howard who was a victim of Princeton's cinderella year in 1973, none of the varsity members has every lost a race at the Sprints...
...other action yesterday, Dianne Fromholtz, opening-round ouster of top-seeded Chris Evert, continued in her role as the Cinderella entry of the tournament when she outslugged Greer Stevens in straight sets...