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...practical purposes, the outcome was decided two weeks ago in the second round, when the charged-up Bullets, led by Guard Earl ("the Pearl") Monroe and Center Wes Unseld, upset the New York Knicks in seven hard-fought games. The defense-minded Knicks, who had beaten the Bucks four out of five games during the regular season, seemed to be the team with the best chance of taking Milwaukee. But with Knick Center Willis Reed hobbled by injuries, the Bullets managed to win that round-although just barely. Going against the Bucks, a team that had defeated them four...
...first period was hard-fought. and the Bruins hit the post twice but the Crimson scored at 17:30 when Sandy Wall set up Sweeney...
...more times Intrepid and Picker proved quicker-by the combined times of 4 min. 20 sec. Only in the last race was McCullough able to salvage something from the trials by boxing out Intrepid at the gun and going on to win a hard-fought race by 1 min. 50 sec. Final tally: 9 victories, 1 loss for Intrepid; 4 victories, 6 losses for Valiant. Heritage was just about out of it with a dismal 2-7 record...
Coach Cullen was also pleased with the Cadets' George Alcorn at number one Harvard captain Larry Terrell won in three hard-fought games. 18-15, 15-10 15-11. "Considering that Terrell is the best collegiate player in the country. I was very happy with Alcorn's performance." Cullen said...
Ideally, the nationality of the first men to land on an extraterrestrial body should be of negligible importance. But the fact is that it will be seen by many as a specifically American victory in a hard-fought race whose outcome has not always been so clear. After Sputnik, when Soviet space firsts and U.S. space failures were occurring with disheartening regularity, a Soviet official boasted: "The space programs of the United States and the Soviet Union have demonstrated for all the world to see that socialism is a better launching pad than capitalism...