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...press time, it was clear that Frank Mankiewicz will indeed be looking for a new job this morning. For the Nixon landslide victory, which had been predicted since the Democratic Convention, slowly took shape last night as the election returns made their way toward the computers. Even the meager optimism of McGovern's supporters in the last days of the campaign proved to have been ill-founded...
...Radcliffe goal, Mary Meager made her debut with the team. She played an excellent game and came up with some great saves. Unfortunately, her counterpart from Northeastern was a more experienced player, who stymied the 'Cliffe offense...
...attempt to make something out of his meager talent, B.U. coach Larry Naviaux has fiddled around with a variety of offensive systems. This year, he's come up with a half-breed offense known as the wing-bone. So far, it has produced more fumbles than touchdowns...
...domed Nasser Hall; there he addressed 1,750 delegates to an Arab Socialist Union Congress assembled to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Nasser's revolution. In a remarkable wide-ranging speech that lasted four hours (see next page), Sadat alluded to the expulsion of the Russians only in meager and unrevealing phrases. Much of his address was taken up with angry denunciations of Israel and of U.S. policy toward the Middle East. Sadat concluded with the statement that Egypt was willing to go to war alone if necessary to recover its lost territories...
...publisher of this modest-looking paperback recently explained its meager promotion budget by telling the author, "The war just isn't selling any more." Maybe not in the bookstores, but it's still going strong in Southeast Asia...