Word: clinchers
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...people would say the U.S., because it still has the mightiest navy. But the correct answer, when all types of ships are counted, is the Soviet Union. After three decades of feverish shipbuilding, the Russians have the second biggest navy, the No. 1 fishing fleet and-here is the clincher-a rapidly growing merchant marine that has already opened a new era of commercial competition on the high seas.* Soviet shippers are plying routes to every major port, from San Francisco to Dar es Salaam, Hamburg to Mombasa. It is almost as if the Russians were following the turn...
...first-year squash squad completed an undefeated season, coming out on top of a seesaw, down-to-the-wire match, 5-4. The seat squirming was not over until John Ordway disposed of Yale's Russ Endo with two sudden-death wins and a 15-12 clincher...
...Crimson's Kip Smith (UNL) followed with a pin that might have been the clincher had the previous match gone differently, but by then it was too late...
...Lynn, also a college senior, was seventh at bat. Rozzie struck him out. Lynn came up two more times and never got on base; Brayton pitched "well enough to win," said the Harvard coach. But the USC pitcher pitched better, and Harvard lost, 4-1. The team dropped the clincher to Georgia Southern the following day and went back to Cambridge...
...Kings netted the clincher with 4:25 left on another score by John Sullilvan. Harvard, in a desparation move, pulled their goalie with 1:30 left, but could not score...