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...lead in my pants until the fifth game," Emmi Levin, who played number four, said yesterday after her match. Levin could only muster 16 points in the first two games, before winning the last three...

Author: By Marc M. Sadowsky, | Title: Everyone Wins--Racquetwomen Demolish Wesleyan, 7 to Zip | 2/24/1976 | See Source »

...longer-run problem in cleaning up auto exhaust is that with present equipment the carmakers cannot meet the tougher standards that will be required under present rules by 1978. Automakers get the vast majority of their cars past muster now by attaching catalytic converters that remove pollutants from exhaust after it leaves the engine but before it blows out of the tailpipe (see diagram). In order to get as much nitrogen oxide out of the exhaust as they must by 1978, however, the carmakers will have to resort to lower combustion temperatures, reduced compression ratios and other engine modifications. Those...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Grasping for Clean Air | 1/19/1976 | See Source »

There is a possibility too that congressional tax reformers will end the bonanza. A bill that would have erased most of the tax advantages of investing in movies passed the House last year. It is pending before the Senate Finance Committee and a new attempt to muster votes for it probably will be made in 1976. Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. Vice President Burton R. Marcus concedes that the current law has bred abuses that "constitute a rip-off and ought to be eliminated." Like other motion-picture executives, however, he is afraid that Congress may enact legislation that would damage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Cinematic Shelter | 1/19/1976 | See Source »

...injuries showed as the best Harvard could muster was a third place by English in the one meter diving. English recovered enough, however, as he went on to win the three-meter event later in the afternoon...

Author: By James W. Reinig, | Title: Mermen Drown Green, 68-45, Behind Yntema's Aqua-heroics | 1/19/1976 | See Source »

Harvard got off to a quick start in the contest and rushed to a 10-4 lead, but that was the largest margin they would be able to muster until the last minute of the game...

Author: By David Clarke, | Title: Cagers Outrule Judges for First Win... | 12/15/1975 | See Source »

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