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Suffering their third straight loss, the 4-6 laxmen now need to knock off ninth-ranked UMass this week just to keep alive their chances for a winning season. After the battle with the Minutemen, the Crimson wrap up the season with games against Williams and Dartmouth...

Author: By David Clarke, | Title: Tigers Pound Crimson Stickmen, 17-7 | 5/2/1977 | See Source »

...10th," announced Ali last week. But the twice-wed champ seemed more concerned with bells in the ring. On May 16 he will defend his heavyweight title at Capital Centre in Landover, Md., against Spain's Alfredo Evangelista. "I think I'll get into the ring and knock him down, but I just don't know," he said with uncharacteristic modesty. "He's 22 and I'm 35 and he's killed hisself training. It's exactly like Rocky. "Or so he hopes. · The young lady from Ketchum, Idaho, is dusting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 18, 1977 | 4/18/1977 | See Source »

...YORK CITY'S J.F.K.: Pilots knock the big airport for doing a poor job of removing snow, allowing too many maintenance vehicles on the airfield and using unsafe noise control...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Rating the world's Airports | 4/11/1977 | See Source »

...dismiss the setbacks as temporary. They admit that the customarily well-oiled AFL-CIO lobbying apparatus stumbled badly on the common-situs bill by ignoring warnings that the measure was in trouble until 48 hours before the vote. But, says Thomas Donahue, Meany's top assistant, "when you knock us down once, you don't get any prize. We've been down before, dusted ourselves off, and come back-and we will again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: A Rapid Decline in Political Clout | 4/11/1977 | See Source »

...night; a prostitute, before taking on a customer, matter-of-factly washing his genitals in the sink along with the dishes. But Joel Seria is the kind of literal-minded director who, when a character has to leave his car, cross a road, cut along a field and knock on the door of a house, follows him with the camera every tedious step of the way. The painter may want to be behind his subjects, but the film as a whole makes the mistake of lagging far behind the viewer's imagination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Derriere-Garde | 3/21/1977 | See Source »

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