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...leading 66-32, Coach Bill McCurdy was jokingly asked if Doug Terry, the Brown coach, had been gracious enough to deliver his concession. "Well, he'd be a madman if he didn't," McCurdy exclaimed, pointing out that the score required only three more points for the Crimson to clinch the meet...
...thriller of the day, Ditzler hit a lob deep in the backhand corner for an outright winner to clinch the second doubles for her and partner Miller, 6-3, 3-5, 6-1, in almost total blackness. The other two doubles contests were suspended because of the gloom...
...Americans nowneeded to win only one single to clinch the match. Gary Hallberg did the honors when he hit his second shot to the elevated green on the 15th hole stony for a birdie three that put him four up with three...
...abrazo, of course, does not clinch the treaty, which faces a months-long scrap in the U.S. Senate and a plebiscite in Panama as well. But as last week's events sharply dramatized, Carter is going to use all his presidential resources to win approval of the treaty. He needs it to vindicate his foreign policy, which has run into snags in the Middle East, in the Far East and in the SALT talks. He also wants to emphasize that he is not solely preoccupied with East-West problems, but gives considerable weight to the crucial relationship between developed...
...onetime Republican member of the Council of Economic Advisers and now an institute associate, once wrote a report contending that the Nixon Administration's initial fiscal and monetary policies were overly restrictive. This year another A.E.I. report sided with President Carter's decision to stop the Clinch River nuclear breeder-reactor project-in opposition to the views of Distinguished Fellow Ford, who wanted continued development...