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Eileen O'Rourke and Mary McCarthy were the hot shots from the outside for SMU, and when they missed, which was not often in the first half, the big SMU forwards were there to grab the rebounds and put in the follow...
...face, while a new personal-best time might prompt an athlete to swim extra laps with seemingly endless energy. A euphoric basketball squad would rush onto the hardwood and mob each other with embraces when victorious, but when defeated the team would walk somberly to their locker room, grab a Coke and a pretzel, and hurry off to the solitude of a hot shower...
...Harvard downfall came in the longer events. With the exception of the 1000-yd. freestyle, the women could not grab a 1-2 or 1-3 finish to make up the 12-point deficit that they faced at the meet's halfway point. This shortcoming cost them the meet...
...scheduled airlines, though, are not all pleased. Charter carriers, they point out, do not have to provide year-round service on less popular routes. The newcomers, in the words of a Trans World Airlines executive, "skim the cream-run into the market, grab what they can in peak season and get out and into another market." To compete with the charter outfits, the scheduled lines claim they may eventually be forced to curtail their regular services. Possible result: lowered earnings for the big carriers, who have already had plenty of profit problems in recent years...
...Grab. On Thanksgiving Day, Tokyo replied. It proposed to hold Japanese auto exports to Britain to 10% or less of the British market, to increase quotas on imports of European skimmed milk, butter and cheese into Japan, and to line up more Japanese importers of processed meats and retailers of imported tobacco. Most encouraging to the Europeans, the Japanese also agreed to negotiations on shipbuilding, the sorest issue of all. In the first nine months of 1976, Japan grabbed 86% of all shipbuilding contracts awarded in industrialized countries. European shipbuilders claim that the Japanese can underbid them...