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Meanwhile, Fred Lynn drove in Carlton Fisk with a fourth inning tally to put the Sox ahead, 1-0, providing starter Rick Wise with all the cushion he needed. Wise raised his record to 2-3 with his shutout performance...
...Concern. To survive, Lockheed needs to sell off marginal assets, like the Hollywood-Burbank Airport, and find more customers for its Tri-Star jumbo jet. Over the next ten years the company will write off as losses $500 million in TriStar development costs, and it needs more sales to cushion the blow. Defense business is encouraging: Lockheed should this year match the $2 billion in Government contracts that it booked in 1975. Modifications of the C-5 A and C-141 transports could lead over the next few years to an additional $1.5 billion in military orders...
...Incentives. Kosygin tried to cushion the disappointing prospects for Russia's consumers by dramatizing the recent recession in the West. "The capitalist world has been in the grip of a grave economic crisis," he declared, "an organic disease of the capitalist system aggravated by the protracted militarization of the economy." This was resoundingly seconded by American Communist Party Boss Gus Hall, who described the economic situation in the U.S. as horribly bleak. Kosygin deftly skirted the chronic shortages plaguing the Soviet consumer. He blamed poor weather for last year's disastrous harvest that resulted in a 76-million...
...converting off a lob pass from Carey. Next, Carey, who led all players with four steals, hawked the ball and drove the length of the court for a score. He capped his whirlwind first half performance with a pair of foul shots to give the Crimson a seven point cushion...
...Crimson unveiled the "Dunder to Diller connection," as Danny Dilorati in a "private victory" came back to haunt his alma mater, steering home a goal 2:47 into the third period to give the icemen a 4-2 cushion...