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...pronounced feeling in the capital seems to be a fear of the lawlessness that could grip the city during those gray days when one regime has lost power but the conquerors have not yet completely arrived. Fueling these fears were the horror stories of the panic and flight from the north. Almost every refugee-laden barge that pulled into a southern port brought its own cargo of the dead-victims of starvation, exposure, thirst or the shootings of renegade soldiers...
...Crimson thinclads are losing their grip on things. After dropping the GBC crown last week, they continued their losing ways in the Big Three meet at Princeton on Saturday, succumbing to the ferocious Tigers for the first time in six years...
...Detroit lose its grip on the buying public? Last winter's Arab oil embargo "hit us right between the eyes," says GM Chairman Thomas A. Murphy. Consumers are still confused about what the energy crisis might do to gasoline prices and availability in the long term. At the same time, inflation has wiped out more than 5% of the public's purchasing power over the past year, while rising unemployment has also cut deeply into sales. The jobless rate stood at 7.1% in December, and it may turn out to be close to 8% for January, when...
Died. Vivien Kellems, 78, businesswoman and tax rebel; of pneumonia; in Santa Monica, Calif. After severing a brief 1918 marriage-her first and last -Kellems set up a cable-grip factory with a brother in 1927 and built it into a profitable firm. Fiercely combative, she began a 26-year feud with the IRS in 1948 by refusing to collect withholding taxes from her employees, later campaigned against tax discrimination favoring married people over singles, claiming last year that the Government owed her $48,000 illegally collected "just because I have no husband...
...pays meticulous attention to the technical aspects of his game and scrupulously follows about a dozen checkpoints. Each round he continually reviews such things as the balance of his body weight, the pressure of his grip on the club, the rhythm of his backswing and the placement of his feet. He makes adjustments, if necessary, on the spot...