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Throughout the Buffalo area and in the cold belt that stretched taut across the Midwest, Americans were digging themselves out and counting their blessings as the Great Winter of '77 relaxed its clutch. In New York, Ohio and New Jersey, plants rumbled back into action and hundreds of thousands of men and women returned to work. Chicago temperatures rose to a comparatively balmy 45°, after shivering below freezing for 43 straight days. In their euphoria, some citizens doffed their overcoats and earmuffs, as though spring were just around the corner...
...head coach of the Los Angeles Lakers, Jerry West wept tears of joy over returning to basketball. "Wait until he sees the Lakers," somebody snickered. Others suggested that West could best help his old team by finding the fountain of youth and coming back as himself, the matchless Mr. Clutch who as a high-scoring guard led the Lakers into the N.B.A. playoffs 14 times in 14 years. The post-West Lakers had been a crying shame, winding up the 1976 season next to last in the Pacific Division with a dismal record of 40 wins and 42 losses...
Rivals Humbled. ABC, which had risked $6 million on the production starring LeVar Burton as Kunta Kinte, Lou Gossett as his slave tutor, and a clutch of familiar TV veterans, humbled its network rivals in a week-long domination of the Nielsen ratings. Had ABC gambled even more by delaying the show until the start of the so-called sweep week on Jan. 31, the triumph would have been even sweeter. During those periods, ratings services measure the audiences of local stations, and the networks often air their strongest shows then to boost affiliate ad rates...
State outscored Radcliffe 17-4 in an eight-minute period with clutch buckets by Carol Filler and Maryanne Sowell which narrowed the score...
...pervade the sport; especially among younger skiers. There's generally no one to beat except yourself. After about five lessons I taught myself to ski, and while I am far from great (knees generally too far apart and a tendency to throw my weight the wrong way in the clutch), I've derived a real sense of accomplishment from the five years I've been skiing...