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...hungry for a win to start its season out right. But as things turned out, not even a two-week training trip to Florida could help the tanned Dartmouth flotilla, as the Harvard aquawomen overcame the Bangkok flu and reading period doldrums to prevail...
...might yet prevail and be reconfirmed as Party Chairman. Still, China's leaders were doing nothing to dispel stories that he had lost power. National newspapers lavishly displayed an article that was filled with oblique but unmistakable criticisms of Hua. "The party's prestige is not high now," the article declared, hardly needing to mention that Hua Guofeng has been the party's leader for nearly five years. Some leaders of the Central Committee made mistakes even after the downfall of the Gang of Four, the article went on, pointing specifically to a "cult of personality...
...storybook? No, they're members of top-ranked, 11-0, Georgia. Notre Dame blew its shot at the national crown with a loss to USC last week, but retains a good chance to upend Vince Dooley's Bulldogs. The Irish magic will fall short, however, and Georgia will prevail, 19-13, despite Notre Dame's remarkably staunch defense...
...Margaret Thatcher. The Labor Opposition believes that by the time the next election is called, the Conservative government will be in such deep trouble over its rigid monetarist economic policies, which so far have not cooled a raging inflation nor prevented a sharp rise in unemployment, that Labor can prevail with just about any candidate. Said Political Analyst Robert McKenzie: "It is possible that the next election could be won by Labor even if the party was led by Judas Iscariot...
Banfield believes Carter "would be able to manipulate the advantages of the incumbency" to prevail in a House tussle, even if the Republicans do gain ground this week. But even if the struggle is protracted, Banfield says he "can't imagine a catastrophe that would leave us without a functioning political mechanism. If you call what we are doing now 'functioning,' we would carry...