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...mileage claims of some of the imports: 38 m.p.g. for the Volkswagen Rabbit, 39 m.p.g. for the Japanese Honda Civic. Those cars are in the forefront of the import surge, along with Fiat, Datsun, Toyota and British Leyland's Marina. Says Honda's U.S. sales manager, Cliff Schmillen: "There seems to have been a change in people's thinking. It has sunk in that energy shortages and high gasoline prices will be with them for the rest of their lifetime." Johnie Leake, a 26-year-old Manhattan Cadillac owner who last week shopped for a Toyota...
These positions are by no means permanent, as any one of a number of players currently listed on the J.V. squad, including Dan Waldman, Cliff Adler, Karl Kravitz and Sandy Wilson, may move up to the varsity before the season is over...
Mike Dee, sporting his form of old, brought the Crimson to within one with a decision in the closing minute over 150-pound Eli Cliff Wilson, but the meet would never be that close again as Yale's superior depth in the higher weights proved to be too much for Harvard...
...fittest" part of the language. He also gave his name to the remote capital of Australia's tropical Northern Territory, and all too often the city of Darwin has been subjected to the harsh and literal testing of that phrase. In 1897, a cyclone leveled the cliff-perched port town, killing 28 of its residents. In 1937, it was flattened by another tropical storm. Five years later, Japanese Commander Mitsuo Fuchida, who led the attack on Pearl Harbor, blasted the city with 188 bombers, killing 243 people and wounding 300. Last week on Christmas Day came the latest...
...Fremont River Canyon for a prebreakfast dip. Soon after, the group set out on a 1,200-ft. descent to the canyon floor. That evening they dined on freeze-dried chili and M&M candies, then rested up for the next day's rappel down an 80-ft. cliff...