Word: rivalling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bars on Bomber Road outside the sprawling General Dynamics plant in Fort Worth began filling up as soon as the word came down from Washington, and there was plenty to celebrate. After a three-year commercial and political dogfight with a rival design built by the Northrop Corp. of Los Angeles, the company's single-engine YF-16 had finally won a bruising Air Force competition for a new generation of lightweight fighter-interceptors. The new machine is supposed to help the planners fight rising costs in military budgets, but that will not prevent it from yielding a bonanza...
...perfectionist," says Barry, "I can't stand mediocrity." If being a one-man offense is perfection, Barry is indeed close to the mark. Tall enough (6 ft. 7½ in.) and heavy enough (220 Ibs.) to hold his own against most rival forwards, Barry can torment opponents with a deadly outside jump shot or exceptionally quick moves to the basket. Already this season, he has scored more than 40 points in ten games. "I don't believe any one man can prevent me from scoring," he says. Because he has been so hot, he often draws double coverage...
...forward, who as a sophomore has been hitting for about an eight point average. Lonetto joins the rest of the judges on Penn's bench when Daly literally throws in six feet and eleven inches worth of Henry Johnson. The tree-like Johnson frequently lowers his boughs on rival players, and averages more fouls than points in his well-meaning play under the boards...
Harvard hockey fans, undaunted by their team's two vacation losses, will display their faith in the Crimson's quest for the Ivy League title tonight by packing sold-out Watson Rink to cheer on the Crimson against Ivy arch-rival Cornell...
Peter Havens at four handled Williams' Mile Werner easily, 15-11, 15-16, 15-8, 15-8. Fred Fisher at three bested his rival, 15-12, 15-9, 17-18, 15-11. Jeff Wiegand also had little problem with Bob Beck, winning...