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Against Delaware Brown recorded his third and most encouraging victory. The junior fired a one-hitter and fanned four to clinch a share of the tournament Most Valuable Player award with teammate Stenhouse...
...Administration and Congress neared a compromise in the fight over construction of a fast-breeder reactor at Clinch River, Tenn. The attraction of the fast-breeder is that it produces more fuel in the form of plutonium than it uses. But President Carter fears that some of the plutonium could find its way into unfriendly hands and increase the danger of atomic-weapons proliferation. The Administration also considers the project too costly for current needs. The likely compromise: if Congress abandons the Clinch River project, as Carter wants, the Administration will agree to bankroll another, more advanced, large demonstration breeder...
Princeton's Alan Fine, whom Hackett beat in the last leg of this event to clinch last month's dual meet, swam leadoff this time and gained a slight edge over Cooper. But Pyle and Mack made up the deficit against Princeton's Howard Nelson and Andy Saltzman, to set the stage for the anchormen and Princeton's dramatic 364-356 victory...
...Hooft snagged 22 points on 10-for-18 shooting. Fellow forward Booker cashed in with 12 points and ten rebounds, and guard Gleen Fine shoveled off nine assists, then rippled through six consecutive free throws in the final 40 seconds to clinch the game...
...these areas. At the Brown meet, for example, Harvard ran one-two-three in the dash and took second and third in the hurdles. This kind of good news is important because it is in events like these that the Huskies will have to be beaten for Harvard to clinch the meet...