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...boxing world has new life. Some said it could never be done. They said the champion would never lose his crown on a decision. They said you had to knock out the champ to take the title. But Leon Spinks proved all the skeptics wrong...
However, most of the disappointment was over the delay itself. Harvard goaltender John Hynes, who played brilliantly against Northeastern in the overtime win a week ago, said "We were all so anxious to play B.U. tomorrow night because we wanted to be the team to knock them off their unbeaten streak. I'm sure that they're not going to be undefeated anymore when March 1 rolls around...
...were made at lunch in several houses, and sign-up lists were posted in entryways throughout the driveways. "Many elderly people cannot get outside their houses and many of those do not have telephones to call for help," Stern said. She added, students who wish to volunteer should just knock on houses where the snow has not been shovelled and offer assistance...
...anti-inflation program focusing on what sounds like the mildest kind of presidential jawboning. The White House will attempt to knock half a percentage point off the inflation rate (6.5% to 6.8% in 1977, by various measurements) by urging union leaders and corporate executives to hold wage and price boosts below the average for the past two years. To that end, Administration officials will try to convene informal panels of labor and corporate bosses to work out wage-price goals for specific industries, bearing in mind that some will need bigger increases than others. Said Carter firmly, and to much...
...prophet . . . He saw, to the point of exact detail, the horror gathering. The Trial exhibits the classic model of the terror state. It prefigures the furtive sadism, the hysteria which totalitarianism insinuates into private and sexual life, the faceless boredom of the killers. Since Kafka wrote, the night knock has come on innumerable doors...