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...expenses for joining the field. But two meets were scheduled on the opposite coast for the same weekend, and the sprinter had been offered round-trip plane tickets by both meet directors-one of which he could cash in as an informal subsidy. So the promoter decided that to clinch the deal it was necessary to tack on a sliding scale of incentive payments for any records the runner might...
Conceivably, the American League championship will be settled by the five games the Yankees and the Red Sox play against each other come September. Conceivably, the Yankees will win easily. Conceivably, Baltimore will sneak home first. (My own prediction is for the Yankees to clinch the division championship in Toronto on Sept. 24. The temperature will...
...operator, managed to take calamity in stride. His reason: "This is the 26th time I've been flooded since I came here in 1957." At Jack's Union 76 Service Station near Sneedville, Tenn. (pop. 1,000). Owner Jack Stapleton even found cause for cheer, though the Clinch River had risen a record 26 ft. above its banks, sweeping away houses and barns. "The river is going down," he said. "Nobody got killed or hurt bad. The sun is shining, and the birds are singing...
...expected, Jimmy Carter last week came down hard on the anti-plutonium side. Citing the "serious risk," he said he would seek to halt the development of plutonium as a fuel source. (It can be manufactured only under federal license.) A prototype breeder to be built on the Clinch River in Oak Ridge, Tenn., will be restricted to research employing other fuels, like thorium, which is not used in weapons. Carter will block the federal funds needed to complete a privately owned plant in Barnwell, S.C., designed to reprocess used uranium fuel into plutonium. He will also call...
...victories would clinch sixth place, and a split should be good enough for postseason play. Brown was sailing along until its loss Saturday night to Dartmouth, RPI and Providence already have at least ten defeats and a tough week ahead, and Vermont is hanging on by its Catamount. In other words, keep your eye on the scoreboard, but regardless of what transpires elsewhere, two Harvard triumphs (and probably even one) would definitely spell playoff for the Crimson in Cambridge...