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...coaching has produced a characteristic flock of Tiger stars this year. Of Bryant (6 ft. 3 in., 236 Ibs.), Merritt says: "He'll hit you just coming out of the huddle." Edward ("Too-Tall") Jones, a 6-ft. 9-in., 268-lb. defensive tackle, is a likely first-round draft choice for the pros. "Jones will go hard at you every play," Merritt says, "like he's killing snakes." Wide Receiver John Holland, according to the coach, is "quick as a hiccup...
This spring the quest for the $100,000 jackpot that will go to the championship team has caused more than the usual amount of erratic behavior. The Los Angeles Lakers, listless and barely able to survive their first-round clash with the bruising Chicago Bulls, came roaring back to polish off the Golden State Warriors in five games. The Knicks, helped by an injury that all but immobilized Celtic Star John Havlicek, ran up a commanding lead of three games to one, then lost two in a row. With that the Celtics did something they had never done before...
...timed. After the first-round results were in, much of France seemed visibly relieved that the Gaullists had survived with no more damage than expected. Shopping picked up in the fashionable boutiques along Paris' Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, ending a slump that had begun with the onset of the campaign two months ago. The strident warnings from the tough-minded Communist leader, Georges Marchais, that "strikes will multiply" if Gaullism continued seemed particularly ill-timed. A walkout of civilian air controllers had snarled air traffic all over France, and was at least partly responsible...
With a relatively poor first-round showing, the centrist "reform movement" fell short of establishing itself as a credible non-leftist alternative to Gaullism. Its leaders decided to approach the second round on different tacks. Bargaining for a voice in any new Gaullist government, Lecanuet agreed to withdraw his candidates in districts where they might pull votes away from a Gaullist and thus help to throw the election to a leftist. Servan-Schreiber, hoping that the Gaullists would lose their majority and thus be forced to turn to him and his allies for help, urged centrist candidates to stay...
...leftists had unity problems of their own. Paradoxically, but not surprisingly, the first-round success of the Communists and Socialists bade fair to spoil their second-round chances...