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...Like two punch-drunk prizefighters who decided that enough was enough, USX and the United Steelworkers reached a tentative settlement last week of the longest steel strike in U.S. history. Steelworkers President Lynn Williams and the union's chief negotiator Jim McGeehan were all smiles as they prepared to put the agreement to a vote of the membership, but the truth was that both sides lost. The 170-day strike forced USX, formerly known as U.S. Steel, to lose $500 million in orders. Meanwhile, 22,000 union workers forfeited six months of pay. The agreement does not solve the industry...
...season and the players on the Harvard hockey team were beginning their quest for the Ivy League, the ECAC and the NCAA championships with an aerobics class. Many of the players were thinking how much easier it is to punch a puck into a net from 40 feet out than to do a deep knee bend...
...could have happened that way. In fact, a lot of it did. But this refraction of reality is not nearly as interesting as it might be. To punch it up a bit, suppose that Roth's fiction was clamorously acclaimed; that his first published volume, Goodbye, Columbus (1959), won the National Book Award and made the author a name to be reckoned with at 27. Implausible, true, but more dramatic than the other version. And what about that happily-ever-after marriage? Maybe it lasted only a few years before plummeting into an acrimonious separation in 1963 that left Roth...
...Kidney Stones? Who Ya Gotta Call . . . Stonebusters!" With that jarring punch line, Saint Joseph Medical Center in Burbank, Calif., is touting its newly acquired lithotripter, a device that disintegrates kidney stones with shock waves...
Sybil Smith provided most of B.U.'s scoring punch, taking two individual firsts and sharing in a relay victory as well. Smith pulled the double in the sprint freestyles, finishing on top in both the 50 and 100 freestyle races...