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Sophomore Mitch Reese was the most decisive player in the Crimson attack, winning three quick games by the same score, 15-6. Reese played aggressively, hitting drives along the rail instead of relying on his usual variety of shots...
...Trucker Phyllis Crush, who drives with her husband Ted, describes a recent run-in. "I was driving in the giddyap lane and some broad stopped dead at 65 m.p.h. She was starting to back up at an exit. I slam on my brakes and my trailer hits the guard rail. But I'd have been responsible...
Getting a deregulation bill through Congress may take three years. Prospects are brighter for a 1979 bill giving railroads more freedom to set rates; railmen are for it. Interestingly, O'Neal doubts that rail deregulation will do much good. He fears that it would be used to hike rates, not cut them, and considers trucking deregulation more important. Since trucks haul just about everything that Americans buy or sell, he is probably right...
...incident marked the first game of fifth-ranked George Bell's match. With the struggle knotted at 17-all, Bell hit a rail shot and obstructed Navy's Bill Steinweddell. The Midshipman made a gesture but failed to say "let", so Bell was awarded the point and the game...
...record 42 hours. More than 1,400 of the city's streets were blocked by drifts, many of them 12 ft. high. The estimated 300 million tons of snow that fell on Chicago closed schools for at least a week, halted the city's elevated rail system for days, kept firemen from reaching burning buildings, and forced critically short-staffed hospitals to import 1,000 pints of blood from Los Angeles. The city attached snowplows to garbage trucks, even fire trucks. Convoys of borrowed snow-fighting equipment rolled in from as far away as Quebec...