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Like wary boxers who had learned they could be hurt, Britain and Argentina traded cautious punches last week around the Falkland Islands. The military action was restrained: both sides drew blood, but neither tried to aim a knockout blow in their South Atlantic confrontation. The reason: there were continuing prospects for a diplomatic resolution of the six-week crisis...
That left Allard to deliver the knockout punch to Northeastern pitcher O'Leary, a two-run blast over the 340-foot sign in right field...
...quantities of Soviet surface-to-air missiles. The real shocker was the loss of 500 tanks, 400 on the Egyptian front alone. Dinitz implored me to keep the numbers secret from everyone except the President. If they were known, the Arab countries now standing aloof might join for a knockout blow...
...euphoria in New York disappeared with Christmas. On the 27th New York had one less team in the playoffs, following the failure of Todd's last-minute comeback attempt against the Bills. The Giants, however, upset Philadelphia, scoring a surprising knockout of last year's NFC representative in the Super Bowl. The magic didn't carry over to the next week when San Francisco demolished New York's last survivors, 38-24. After all, by then it was already...
...viewers love it," said Robert Strock, marketing director of Theta Cable, which delivers CBS-C to 100,000 homes in the Los Angeles area. "We are already getting tons of calls. CBS's lineup for October is a knockout...