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...confrontation has taken place before. Rocky has made the star wealthy ($25 million from the first two installments), a leading man the equal of an Eastwood or a Reynolds, and a budding Hollywood business force. But his image as the boxer has kept Stallone's career in a clinch. His other roles, the labor leader in F.I.S.T. or the neighborhood loafer in Paradise Alley, attracted disappointing revenues and mixed reviews. After a moment, he turned to his fans, raising his fists and becoming Rocky for an instant, as if he were slipping into another skin. "You can break that...
Howard Baker seems the perfect Government representative. But when the cuts concern his pork-barrel projects, like the Clinch River breeder reactor, he is not asking as much of himself as he does of other Senators. Baker may be a shepherd in party matters, but he is a wolf when legislation threatens Tennessee...
...upped the laxmen's record to 8-4. They will close out the season with a contest on Saturday against Dartmouth at the Business School field. A win would clinch the New England championship, but the Nationals as still only a distant hope at best...
With the score 81-77, the Crimson needed to win the 4x400 relay to clinch the meet Brad Bunney got the squad off -to a good start with a very fast opening leg. Sprinter Jay Hudson took the baton and held onto the 50-yd. lead for most of the lap but just before he handed off. Northeastern's Mark MacKinnon made his move and cut the lead in half. That was as close as the Huskies ever got, though, as Bennet Midlo extended the Crimson lead and Dwayne Jones held on to give Harvard a comfortable...
Down 3-0 in the second set. Usher's second doubles team of Maria Pe and Debbie Kaufman rallied to within a game of Princeton's Susan Whitney and Jan Shelburne. It took the Tigers four matchpoints and dogged persistence to snatch the set 7-5 and clinch the team laurels for Princeton...