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...freedom with the Reds chasing foolishly after them. Displaying scarcely more hesitation than a plump matron deciding between a chocolate eclair and a napoleon, Susan lets her husband -who seems glad to get away - fly back to the States, and chooses Clark as her soul mate. Their final clinch halfway up a mountainside is mercifully dwarfed by a staggeringly beautiful panorama of Hong Kong...
...varsity rugby team, unbeaten in cup and league play this season, should get back onto the winning trail and clinch the Eastern League title tomorrow, when they meet a weak Princeton...
...there is a mandatory nine-count on all knockdowns, and referees have a free-wheeling authority for stopping one-sided scraps. Protected by such careful conventions, undergraduates cut loose with skillful enthusiasm. A college fight is limited to three 2-minute rounds; there is never any time for the clinch and stall that are stock in trade of so many cauliflowered pugs...
Last year's history will have a chance to repeat itself at 9 p.m. tonight in the Garden when the varsity hockey team faces Princeton in an effort to clinch its second straight Ivy League title...
Kirkland will have its last chances to clinch the intramural basketball championships when it meets Dunster at 8 p.m. tonight at the IAB. Regardless of the outcome, however, the Funsters are doomed to third place...