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Freshman Andy Chaikovsky knotted the teams at three matches a piece with what coach Dave Fish labeled a "very clutch 7-6, 6-2 victory" over Yale's Kaufman...
...worked towns with populations between 7,000 and 25,000, where he reckoned that people are more trusting than in street-wise big cities. Stores and gas stations in these towns often stock the blank counter checks of state banks, and he would simply go in and collect a clutch of such paper. Then with a shoe-box-sized checkwriting machine, he would imprint the amount of the check in a neat, official-looking script. The amounts were always the same: a small odd-dollar figure that seemed like a reasonable weekly wage. For years it was $89.25; inflation recently...
Harvard came through in the clutch, however. Andy Gellis gave the Crimson a slim 10-9 lead, and the stickmen clung to the margin as time ran out. In the final minute of play, in a man-up situation, Mellen turned a fine pass from Kevin McCall into his fourth goal of the day, and Harvard triumphed...
...charges that Secretary of State Henry Kissinger is soft on the Soviets have reached a peak in recent weeks. Longtime Administration critics and a clutch of presidential candidates have damned détente as a one-way street; the U.S., they claimed, has been bulldozed by the Russians. President Ford reacted by replacing the word détente in the diplomatic vocabulary with "peace through strength." All U.S. embassies were advised that the change was no mere wordplay; the U.S. was indeed taking a tougher stand...
...standards of 1976, when a clutch of candidates are lusting for the presidency, that anomie seems as remote as the Age of Jefferson. But it was typically Stevensonian. The candidate's constantly expressed reluctance endeared him to his followers, who considered him too good for politics, a man of rare sensibility and cultivated aloofness. There is much to support such a view of Stevenson in this first major biography, which carries him through his defeat in the 1952 presidential election...