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...Saturday, WISC tried a duel slalom format in which two courses are set next to each other and the racers compete against one another. Lenny Wilson whisked to a fourth place overall and first for the team with a time of 51 seconds. All Radcliffe scorers finished in the top ten as Carlyle Singer grabbed an eighth and Kathy States slipped in with a tenth...
...duel was a dramatic test for both. A conscientious but colorless prosecutor, Browning had been overshadowed throughout the trial by Defense Attorney F. Lee Bailey. Browning had not tried a case in six years; instead, he administered the work of his assistants. San Francisco lawyers tended to dismiss him with faint praise ("Jim-well, he's a nice guy"). But the prosecutor was stubbornly confident he would win: he had the facts, he liked to say. Bailey himself had posed the problem that would face Browning when he began the cross-examination that lasted two days. If Browning pressed...
Browning won one duel with Bailey, only to throw the victory away by committing the worst gaffe of his crossexamination. With the jury out of the room, he persuaded Judge Carter to bar the defense from discussing the threats against the Hearsts that have occurred since the trial began, and the bombing on Feb. 12 at San Simeon, the former estate of Patriarch William Randolph Hearst. (At week's end, the FBI and local police arrested six people with alleged connections to the New World Liberation Front, the terrorist group that has claimed responsibility for the San Simeon bombing...
...California's troglodytic former governor, Ronald Reagan, who was unable, by a little over 1000 votes, to win his duel with the ever-vulnerable Gerald Ford in one of the nation's most conservative Republican constituencies...
...varsity wrestling team strolled down Mass Ave last night to pick up the mythical Cambridge championship, stomping MIT, 26-11 in its last duel match...