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...industrial nations; it predicts an average annual 4% economic-growth rate along with an 8% consumer-price rise in 1977. Carter also read specially prepared biographies of the leaders he is about to meet, plus summaries of the 1975 summit at Rambouillet, France, and the 1976 sequel in Puerto Rico. Over the weekend at Camp David, he digested two briefing books assembled by Brzezinski with help from the State, Treasury and Defense departments and Special Trade Negotiator Robert Strauss. One book dealt with the Downing Street conference, the other with the NATO summit, which Carter will also attend in London...
...comment, Howard," mumbled No. 1 ranked Heavyweight Contender George Foreman to his sometime broadcasting colleague Howard Cosell after dropping a unanimous 12-round decision in San Juan, Puerto Rico, last week to 3-to-l underdog Jimmy Young. Young's cover-up tactics and counterpunching created more than another dent in the former champ's fragile ego. They put a crimp in the multimillion-dollar plans of Promoter Don King to get Foreman back in the ring for a rematch with Titleholder Muhammad Ali. After flirting with retirement following his victory over Ken Norton last fall, the aging...
Fayer may be short in the endurance department, but she is certainly not lacking speed--she's a natural sprinter. Her "instinctive quickness" blossomed from the start. After swimming seriously for just six months, she said, she had beaten most of the people in Puerto Rico who had "been swimming for years...
However, Fayer added that her quick success was largely a bad reflection on the Puerto Rican women's swimming program. She said, "Puerto Rico's program for women was quite poor, and as a result, many of the swimmers quit by the time they were 16. I came in at a time when many of the women were quitting...
...Puerto Rico, a swimmer trains only for the infrequent big events such as the Olympic and Pan American trials. Consequently, Fayer said she did not have to push herself at home; she merely "did what had to be done in order to win." This helps explain her inability to gain qualifying times for the Nationals...