Word: comebacking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite a third period comeback effort by the Harvard freshman hockey team, the team bowed to the Merrimack College J.V. at North Andover yesterday by a score...
Potential Rival. In Hong Kong last week there were even rumors that Teng had actually been named Premier-the post he was expected to get after Chou's death. If that was true-or even if Teng was on the comeback trail-Hua's control of the government might be less secure than Sinologists had believed. Teng was not only the archenemy of Chiang Ch'ing's radicals, who last year organized a massive press campaign against this "capitalist reader," he was also a serious potential rival to Hua, who had denounced the tough, abrasive little...
Speculation about Teng's comeback was reinforced last week by the continued and conspicuous absence of Hua and his twelve-man Politburo, who did not attend the week-long ceremonies honoring Chou. Few analysts thought Hua had completely lost his grip, but many China watchers viewed his nonappearance as further evidence of a raging power struggle. Hua would certainly prefer to see the premiership go to an ally or a subordinate with less ambition than Teng, like Vice Premier Li Hsien-nien. If Teng succeeds in becoming Premier, Hua would probably remain as Chairman. But in the face...
...comeback stalled when Harvard turned the ball over twice at 62-all, hanson hit for a basket at 3:05, and Irion missed a ten-footer a few seconds later...
Chrysler, which had been ailing for several years, made a spectacular comeback. Its total car sales last year leaped 31% over 1975, exceeding even GM's 28% gain. The company's revival rested largely on three handsomely styled, scaled-down autos: the Volaré, which sold 311,000 and the Aspen (232,000), which are both compacts, and the intermediate-size Cordoba (175,500), which packs a lot of luxury into a fairly small package...