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Meanwhile, Panarese, who was playing the last head-to-head match of his collegiate career, put his game together to come back in the fifth game and record Harvard's fourth point, 14-17, 15-11, 7-15, 15-13 and 15-8. "For a second there I really thought I was going to lose my last college match," he said...
Overcoming a poor start and surviving a head-to-head backstretch duel, Seattle Slew got the first real test of his racing career and handled it courageously to win the 103rd Kentucky Derby by nearly two lengths. His victory was solid, but hardly overwhelming: his time of 2 min. 2 1/5 sec. for the 1¼-mile Derby distance, particularly the slow final quarter-mile, was well off the pace of past champions, even though the track was quite fast...
...exciting tension of head-to-head battle becomes brutal and dreaded tension, however, when the battle takes place between teammates vying for a spot on the squad. It happens in all sports at Harvard, of course, but the most painful examples are the seat-races of crew and the challenge matches of tennis...
...another head-to-head encounter between the two camps last week, the Carter side scored a clear victory. At the Los Angeles Civic Center, snacking bystanders at an International Chili Society contest chose Rosalynn Carter's tangy recipe by a 4-to-1 margin over Betty Ford's. The Ford offering was rejected as too bland...
Carter may well be the candidate who has the most to gain by debating these and other issues with Ford?establishing his stature by head-to-head confrontation?but he is also the man with the most to lose as the campaign begins. If he appears to be too evasive or too extreme, he runs the real risk of making American voters ask the basic question in the election of 1976: Is this man really strong and trustworthy enough to be put in the White House...