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...losing image has been promoted mostly through the city's generally embarrassing pro teams. The 76ers set an NBA record last year for the fewest victories in a season (9), and hot shot rookies on the Eagles or Phillies invariably turn up smaller, slower and less talented than reported, and eventually fade away to play out their careers in Pottstown or Reading. There is none of the good-natured loyalty that characterized the early Met fans--Philly crowds can be ugly. They curse, they throw full beer cans, they follow their victims home. One baseball player who fell into disfavor...
McKenzie sparkled in the nets against Cornell, making 44 saves in a game the Big Red eventually won 5-2. He has been chosen the ECAC's All-East goalie of the week three times this season. The fewest shots he has had to face came in the game against Princeton, when the hapless Tigers could only manage to fire on him 19 times...
...that such controls, including meat-price ceilings, would lead to black markets. As a guide to the current "direction of my thinking," Nixon suggested that "a temporary lifting of the quotas on imported meat" might increase the supply, and thus drive down prices. That plan would doubtless pose the fewest political problems for the Administration, but Nixon himself admitted that there is currently a world shortage of meat. A lowering of quotas thus might have little effect on domestic supplies. The President carefully left the door open for much more drastic action, like controls on wholesale meat prices...
...prime?and is working through the hottest streak of his career. In addition to finishing among the top five money winners in nine of his last 11 tournaments, he is leading the pack in the race for the Vardon Trophy, which goes to the pro golfer who averages the fewest strokes per round...
Although the fission theory is not completely ruled out, most lunar researchers seem to favor the accretion theory because it explains the moon's origin with fewest inconsistencies...